Monique ferrell biography

Monique Ferrell was born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Her writing is deeply impacted by the experience of surviving.
Monique Ferrell is a Professor of English in New York City.
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Prepared to Mitigate Risk

By Lango Deen

Monique Doute’ Ferrell is the quintessential 21st century-woman juggling a career with marriage and family. A woman for whom the glass was always half full, her optimism, dedication, and exceptional talents resulted in her appointment to the prestigious federal Senior Executive Service just shy of two years ago, joining the growing number of professionals transforming the government. Mrs. Ferrell is the first African American woman to be appointed to the Senior Executive Service in the United States Army Audit Agency’s 67 year history, and only the fourth female.

Leaders chosen to Senior Executive Service (SES) positions share a broad perspective of government and a commitment to the highest standards of public service. SES personnel serve in key positions just below top Presidential appointees, and as such, are the major link between these appointees and the rest of the federal workforce. They oversee nearly every government activity in approximately 75 federal agencies.

Monique Doute’ Ferrell

Deputy Auditor General for Manpower, Res

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UNSTEADY, Monique Ferrell's first full-length collection of poetry and dramatic monologues, is an examination of a life in progress. The verse in this collection delves deeply into such themes as race, class, violence, gentrification, sexuality, celebrity, love, and politics. It is designed to explore the life issues of which we are all so certain, but hopes to express that uncertainty-being unsteady-is normal and can lend itself to deep reflection and creativity. In its pages, you will find poems about infamous cultural figures like Billie Holiday, Mike Tyson, and Tennessee Williams. Additionally, the reader will find poems about a mother who made a difficult and irrevocable decision during Hurricane Katrina, and about the late Lashaundra Armstrong-a woman who drove herself and her five children into the Hudson River during the winter of 2011. It is a visceral examination of things that matter to the writer, and in the end, after your own examination, things that will matter to you as well.

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Monique Ferrell

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Monique Ferrell was born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Her writing is deeply impacted by the experience of surviving both a violent neighborhood and household. It is also influenced by her cultural community and heritage; her struggles with depression/anxiety; the fighting and enduring spirit of her gender; alongside issues of race and what it means to be Black, woman, and uniquely human within an evolving American/global society. A writer of both poetry and fiction, her work has appeared in a myriad of noted creative writing magazines, journals, and anthologies: American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Valley Voices, New York Quarterly Review, Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song, Token Entry: New York City Subway Poems, Out of the Rough: Women's Poems of S