Photo by Jack Scully
Mignon* Ariel King is an urban womanist writer who was born in Boston, Massachusetts. An alumna of Simmons College and a former English instructor, she is creator and editor of the online journals MoJo! and U.M.Ph.! She began writing poetry at age 11 and has been reading at open mics since 1998.
Ms. King’s work often reflects nothing but love for the twinkling nocturnal lights of her beloved city on the Charles River, with its world-famous athletes, rockers, seafood, baked beans, and cobbled, bricked charm. Her work has appeared in various journals and in the collection THE WOODS HAVE WORDS (Ibbetson Street Press). She is currently finishing a three-genre autobiographical trilogy (poetry, memoir, fiction) by writing a novella and revising part two of her “poems of tribute” trilogy-within-a-trilogy (What good’s a view of the Charles…? –based on the poetry of Charles Bukowski).
*Pronounced: MIN-yin. It’s German. It means “favorite.”
