Onome Djere is a poet, performance artist and vocalist whose work has been published in several anthologies such as Brave New Voices and Signifyin' Harlem. Over the past seven years, she has conducted hundreds of youth and adult workshops focusing on poetic craft, story-telling and performance technique. She was a participant in such writing programs such as Cave Canem, LouderArts, The Griot Space, and Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation.

Onome has been working on her soon-to-be-published first collection of poetry, Drapetomania. She is also editing A Place Called There, the much anticipated book of poems by Ola Jendai. She has a degree in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.