BIO

Kia Miakka Natisse 

(KEY-uh)(ME-yah-kah)(Nuh-teese)

She/her

 

Kia Miakka Natisse is an award-winning artist, journalist, storyteller and mystic. Her work spans many forms and formats, including print, TV and audio. She is the former co-host of NPR’s Invisibilia.

 

A native of Buffalo, NY, Kia studied journalism at Howard University, and transmedia storytelling at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Studies. As an artist, she’s had residencies at the Banff Centre, Chicago Artists Coalition and Third Coast, and has shown work at The Kitchen, Smart Museum and Hyde Park Art Museum.