Meet Annette Hope Billings - Author & Actress
Poetry can express volumes of our lives with an economy of words.
Annette Hope Billings is an African-American Kansas poet, playwright, actress and nurse, who now offers by sharing her poetry and prose. She has written two collections of poetry, one-act plays and numerous short stories.
Annette’s readers have dubbed her "the Maya of the Midwest," a moniker she allows with all due humility and gratitude. Known for her performance delivery style, she has been received enthusiastically in many diverse venues.
Her first book of poems, A Net Full of Hope, garnered the Topeka, Kansas, 2015 ARTSConnect Arty Award for Literature.
Her second book, Descants for a Daughter, is a collection of affirmations/meditations and very timely.
Annette's third and newest work, Just Shy of Stars, is now available!
If you would like to purchase autographed copies of any of Annette's books, please click here.
The power of love is the focus of a poem by Topekan Annette Hope Billings that Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office shared this month at four receptions across the state in remembrance of crime victims.
