Meet Neysa
Neysa King first gained a reading audience in the early 2000s writing about local food and young farmers with her blog Dissertation to Dirt, which was picked up by Whole Foods for their webinar series Thrive.After earning her Masters Degree in History in 2009, she worked as a product manager at tech startups for 10+ years while continuing her practice of writing.
As she built her career in tech, she entered into private coaching with the lauded poet Roger Reeves and has since published two poetry chapbooks: Rainbow Body and My Heart Points Back. She has performed poems from Rainbow Body at numerous venues around Miami, created a short film from her work, and released a spoken word album. Her poetry has been featured by O Miami, Sand Berlin Literary Journal, South Florida Poetry Journal, SWWIM Every Day and others.
Dedicated to creating community around writing, she was the original co-founder of Miami Poetry Club, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Miami writers improve their craft. She is currently an MFA student in fiction at Warren Wilson College and is working on her first novel. She lives in Miami Beach. Follow her on IG and Substack @neysaking.