Theresa Okokon
Instructor
About Theresa
Theresa Okokon is a Wisconsinite living in New England. She's a nonprofit professional, storyteller, and co-host of "Stories From The Stage" -- a national public TV show. An alum of both the Memoir and Essay Incubator programs at GrubStreet, she's writing a memoir about memory, family stories, and the death of her father. Theresa's essays (and bathroom selfies!) have appeared in midnight & indigo, ELLE, WBUR's Cognoscenti, Boston.com, and her recent essay in Hippocampus Magazine was named among the Top Essays of the Week by Longreads and The Rumpus. She Instagrams gorgeous cocktails, food porn, and pics about Blackness and fatness at @ohh.jeezzz.