Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves is a life-long New Yorker, artist, and writer living between Providence, Rhode Island and New York City. She holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University with a concentration in Poetry.

Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves is a life-long New Yorker, artist, and writer living between Providence, Rhode Island and New York City. Her multi-disciplinary studio practice centers and explores collective study, anticipatory world building, institutional critique, non-verbal communication, and the “performance of self in everyday life,” though poetics, photography, collage, diorama, essay, lyric, and stagecraft. Supporters include Rauschenberg Residency, Artists Space, Issue Project Room, Montez Press at Matthew NYC, Wendy's Subway, The Poetry Project, 4 Columns, Hyperallergic, Belladonna*, Kore Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, Princeton University, and the Center for Art, Research and Alliances. Greaves holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University with a concentration in Poetry.

Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves is a life-long New Yorker, artist, and writer living between Providence, Rhode Island and New York City. Her multi-disciplinary studio practice centers and explores collective study, anticipatory world building, institutional critique, non-verbal communication, and the “performance of self in everyday life,” though poetics, photography, collage, diorama, essay, lyric, and stagecraft. She is author of Close Reading as Forestry (Belladonna*, 2017), Of Forests and Of Farms: On Faculty and Failure (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020), is anthologized in Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN / Radical WRITING (Kore Press, 2018), and published in The Brooklyn Rail, and About Place Journal. She performs frequently across a broad spectrum of venues and educational contexts and has begun working with video in response to a Spring 2020 commission from Issue Project Room for their Isolated Field Recording Series. Formerly a Monday Night Reading Series curator at The Poetry Project, site director for Wendy's Subway reading room, and an artist-in-residence at Rauschenberg Residency, Greaves is Young Mother & CEO of The Florxal Review—an emerging platform of literary criticism, network science, and experimental praxis centering floral language, its instances, applications, implications, and possibilities. Her spring 2021 Artists Space exhibition The x in florxal is silent when spoken was reviewed in Hyperallergic and in 4 Columns and listed by Hyperallergic as one of New York City’s ten best in 2021. She recently performed at Princeton University’s Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and The Archive. Greaves holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University.

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