WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF SYNNIKA ALEK-CHIZOBA LOFTON!
WHO IS SYNNIKA A. LOFTON?
Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton is an award-winning poet, educator, and author. Lofton is the author of more than thirty collections of poetry, three novels, and one work of nonfiction. His poems have appeared in Clockworks Magazine, Revenge, UpStreet, Experience Reality Magazine, Quay, Dissident Voice, Mid-Atlantic Review, The Skinny Poetry Journal, and Blue-Collar Review. Lofton has recorded hundreds of singles, EPs, and albums of spoken word poetry, which can be found here.
EDUCATION AND PUBLISHING
After graduating from Canyon Hills High School (formerly Serra High School) in San Diego, California, in 1997, he spent two years writing and studying before attending Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, in 2000, where he studied poetry and creative writing. In 2004, he received a BA with a concentration in Creative Writing. His intent was to study for an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at San Diego State University. Instead, he enrolled in Goddard College’s M.F.A. in Creative Writing program and graduated in 2006. He started an independent publishing company called Guerrilla Ignition LLC shortly after graduating from the program, which has served as his main publishing house. He produces books at a rapid pace, and his latest poems can be read at Mailbox Book Weekly. He believes poetry is transformative and should not be tucked away or given to a reluctant publisher, who may or may not publish it.
ON THE WORK
Lofton currently tours and performs at literary festivals, coffee shops, libraries, and schools, with his percussion player, Mr. Greg Lee. He teaches poetry workshops, and has held teaching positions at Renaissance Academy, Elizabeth City State University, Chesapeake Bay Academy, Norfolk State University, and Virginia Wesleyan University.
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