Uchechi Kalu is a Nigerian-born poet, performer, teacher and survivor of life. She has conducted writing workshops at universities, prisons, high schools and after school programs and with the San Francisco WritersCorps program. She spent four years with the late June Jordan's Poetry for the People program, teaching at Berkeley High School, the Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin, and at UC Berkeley.

 Her poems have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies, on KPFA radio and most recently in Revolutionary Voices (Alyson Books, 2000). Her book of poetry, Flowers Blooming Against A Bruised Grey Sky, will be published by Whit Press in 2004.