Join us for an in-person reading with Mercy Tullis-Bukhari, author of The Little Deaths, followed by a book signing.

The Little Deaths is a collection about the fantastical, mythical, familial, and animal.

"From searing to sweet, Mercy's poems pull us into a maelstrom of passion, cynicism, ecstasy, fury, and joy so that we may understand the fullness of womanhood. Her words illuminate the often perilous path that Black women have to walk to simply find the space to say, I am."

—Keisha-Gaye Anderson

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About the Author:

MERCY TULLIS-BUKHARI is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer who finds inspiration from being a Bronx-bred Afro-Latina American, Honduran and Garifuna, of Jamaican descent. Her maternal grandparents are from Belize and her paternal grandparents are from Jamaica. They all immigrated to Honduras, where her parents were born. She is proud of her immigrant roots, being first generation, and because she was and always will be a Bronx girl, she grew up eating lots of pizza in between all of the homeland dishes.

Being Afro-Latina American, to Mercy, means total acceptance of self. Who she is today reflects her Africanness, her Latinidad, and being American. She validates her identity by accepting her history, and proudly accepts that being a Black woman, Latina, who is a Bronx-bred American, is the sopa marinero of who she is today.

She graduated from New York University with a Bachelor’s in English and American Literature, minoring in English Education. She later received her Master’s from Herbert H. Lehman College in English Literature. She also received her Master’s in Fine Arts from The College of New Rochelle, in Creative Writing. The Little Deaths is her third book of poetry.