Breauna L. Roach is a writer, poet and teaching artist from Detroit, Michigan. Her work has appeared in publications including Callaloo, Prairie Schooner, Vinyl, Winter Tangerine, Obsidian, and others. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Fine Arts Work Center, Callaloo Creative Writer's Workshop, and is a Cave Canem graduate fellow.

As a teaching artist, Breauna is dedicated to helping community members find focus and clarity through the practice of active listening. In her journey as a creator, she's learned that listening to oneself enhances your ability to listen, understand, and appropriately value the worlds around you. She focuses on promoting cultural development and advocating for health and wellness by integrating yoga into the creative writing process.  In 2014, Breauna began leading a course that does just that. By studying the way the body moves, then challenging your mind to move your body beyond boundaries, the same can be done when it comes to your own writing. Since yoga means “to join, unite, to yolk together,” it is her consistent artistic goal to be able to unify every aspect of her life into her art, so that it can truly manifest as the sacred form of itself in one-ness.

Breauna's current collection of poems works to demythologize the mystical, particularly in regards to traditional African Diasporic spirituality. These poems move from the present toward the future, with the past running concurrently alongside each seam. Through frequent interrogation and adaptation of persona, these poems seek to reaffirm the one-ness of multiple identities, most often in a way that leaves sole authority with the readers themselves. 

Breauna is a proud Alum of Florida A&M University, where she was editor of CaKe: a Journal of Poetry and Art as well as a founding member of the only poetry organization on campus, which just celebrated it's 10th year. In 2017, Breauna earned her MFA from Emerson College where she taught poetry, research writing, and intro to college writing. She is currently learning sound editing to accompany her years long multimodal cultural project that interrogates naming, classification, unwritten histories and the oral tradition. Read more about that here. On November 10, 2019, Volume 1 of that project titled “Suite Trap Blues” was a part of a group showing at the Hamill Gallery of African Art. Breauna is actively living and writing in the Detroit Metropolitan Area.