BIO

Kia Miakka Natisse 

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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. She was awarded Bronze Best Documentary, in the 2022-23 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award, and nominated, Best Standalone Audio Documentary, in the 2023 IDA Awards.

 

A native and resident of Buffalo, NY, Kia studied journalism and jazz 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 Ragdale, and has shown work at The Kitchen, Smart Museum and Hyde Park Art Museum. She was recently awarded a MacDowell Fellowship. 

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