E.J. Wade is a four-time National Endowment of the Humanities Teacher Institute winner. An award-winning poet with three Pushcart Award nominations, her poems have been published in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Women Speak, New Ohio Review, Salvation South, and Callaloo Journal. As Editor for the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, her poetry and photography has garnered multiple awards. Wade holds a Doctor of Education in Disability and Equity in Education from National Louis University focusing on the silencing, exclusion, and invisibility of African American Women with disabilities.