Imani Cezanne

Cezanne was born and raised in San Diego, California.^[3]

Cezanne has been on multiple National Poetry Slam teams including: Da Poetry Lounge,^[4] San Diego Slam Team,^[2] Oakland Slam Team Elevated,^[5] Golden State Slam,^[3] The Root Slam,^[6] Berkeley Poetry Slam,^[7] and Busboys and Poets Beltway^[8][9]

She represented the Root Slam at the 2018 National Poetry Slam.^[10]

"Heels" was originally filmed by All Def Poetry during her performance of the piece at the Da Poetry Lounge.^[11] Later, Cezanne performed the piece again at the Ill List Slam Poetry Invitational in December 2014.^[12][13][14]

Cezanne performed "Protest" at the 2015 National Poetry Slam.^[15][16]

Cezanne performed "Angry Black Woman" at the Da Poetry Lounge in 2015.^[15][17]

Originally performed at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas.^[18] It was filmed by Button Poetry and uploaded to YouTube.^[19]

Filmed at Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals 2016 in Brooklyn, NY, an event hosted by Poetry Slam, Inc.^[20]

Imani Cezanne has won several Grand Slam Championships, and ranked in the top 10 at several World Poetry slams.^[21]

• 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam ranked 9th^[22][23][24]
• 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam 2016 Co-champions with Emi Mahmoud^[8][25]
• 2020 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion^[26]
• 2020 Finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship^[26]
• 2020 Fugue Writing Contest Poetry Winner^[21]