Utibe Gautt Ate is a Black Cherokee and Nigerian writer, artist, and editor. Her artwork has been exhibited in Los Angeles and Paris, and her words have appeared in LARB, The New York Times, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is a film critic at Black Girl Nerds. After several years in Paris, she is back in her hometown, Los Angeles.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
We All Get to Dream: On Glory Edim’s “Well Read-Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves”
Utibe Gautt Ate exalts “Well-Read Black Girl,” the new essay collection edited by Glory Edim....
Blood, Love, Immigration in Roxane Gay’s “Ayiti”
"Gay’s stories about the 'first free black nation' are written with unapologetic realness. Her characters sat beside me, close enough to touch."...
Keep Showing Up: A Q-and-A with “This Is How I Save My Life” Memoirist Amy B. Scher
Discussing the mind-body connection, intergenerational trauma, and self-generated healing....
