Shanekia McIntosh, black woman with box braids, sits in a white chair in front of a black glass desk

Photo by Christian DeFonte

Shanekia McIntosh is an interdisciplinary artist who works with poetry and text in performance, public installation, and signage-based works. Her work has been presented and performed at the New Museum, Second Ward Foundation, Charim, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Hudson Hall, and New York Live Arts. She is the author of the chapbook Spiral as Ritual (Topos Press, 2021) and the full-length poetry collection A New Sense of Luxury (Eureka! Press, 2025).