Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson

Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson

Author/Writer - Literary Arts - Multiple Art Forms - Performance Art - Performer and Writer - Poet - Radio/Television Talent - Spoken Word Artist - Teaching Artist/Instructor - Vocalist/Singer - Voiceover - Event host/curator

vocab81@gmail.com

Website: https://andreavocabsanderson.com

   12562 Valle DeZavala, San Antonio, TX, 78249

Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson (poet, singer, hip hop artist) known on stage as 'Vocab' has been a spoken word artist since 2001.  Vocab is a San Antonio native and she serves as a Teaching Artist for Gemini Ink since 2009, an Artist in Residence for Hearts Need Art and Art2Action. Vocab was a slam poet from 2004-2008, and a member of four teams that competed at the National Poetry Slam. She has featured and taught creative writing workshops at: DePauw University, Morehouse College, Michigan State University, Pennsylvania University, Rice University, Trinity University and many more universities. In 2015 she traveled internationally to Abu Dhabi performing and teaching at Al Dhafra Airbase, for the troops stationed and serving active duty. In December of 2016, she was a guest teacher for the groundbreaking course: Black Women, Beyonce & Popular Culture, at University of Texas at San Antonio. This course gained international attention and is featured in various publications worldwide. Vocab was a featured teaching artist on the KLRN show Arts which aired in February of 2017. More recently her song, What Will It Take commissioned by the City of San Antonio helped to launch a COVID-19 safety campaign that can be seen and heard on radio and television.  She is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.  Her debut book is entitled, She Lives In Music,  Flower Song Press, February 2020. Her music is available on all music streaming platforms. Andrea is the first black, Poet Laureate of San Antonio 2020-2023. Some of her awards include: Dream Voice 2018, People's Choice Award 2019Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the 17th Annual SEA Awards in 2020, and The Arts and Letters Award by Friends of San Antonio Public Library in 2020. In 2021 &. 2023 She was voted Best Local Poet by the SA Current. In 2022 she was awarded a Creative Development Grant from National Performance Network.

For more info visit www.andreavocabsanderson.com   Her book is available on FlowersongPress.com or Amazon.com 

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