Shirlette ammons biography of barack

In addition to her music releases, Shirlette served as a producer on Emmy and Peabody Award-winning PBS series A CHEF’S LIFE as well as SOMEWHERE SOUTH which also aired on PBS.

Shirlette is the 2016 recipient of Black Public Media’s Pitch Black Prize which awarded funding towards completion of the THE HOOK, a documentary short that explores Black maritime history through the plight of chef Ricky Moore.

She also served as producer on THE SEEDS WE KEEP (Oxford American) and STAY PRAYED UP, which debuted at Telluride Film Festival in September 2021. She is also an award-winning poet and a Cave Canem Fellow whose body of work includes two collections of poetry.

Shirlette Ammons is a Black queer southern truth teller.

She is a poet and musician who has also served as producer on Emmy and Peabody award-winning TV & film projects. She is also an identical twin who hails from a tiny, wonderfully-named pocket of eastern North Carolina earth called Beautancus.

– Grayson Currin,