Come by Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia's Geechee Coast

Neesha Powell-Ingabire (she/they) is a coastal Georgia-born-and-raised movement journalist, essayist, community & cultural organizer, resource mobilizer, cat parent, spouse, and auntie living in Atlanta/occupied Muscogee territory. She reports on the justice movements of the Black, trans, queer, and Southern communities to which she belongs and writes essays to recover her own history and the histories of her ancestors and their ancestral homes.

Neesha's writings have been published in various online and print publications, including Harper's Bazaar, the Oxford American, Scalawag, and VICE. She recently graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Georgia College. Learn more about Neesha's work at neeshawrites.com. They currently live in Fairburn, GA.