Who is Sche?

Scheherazade Washington Parrish

Scheherazade Washington Parrish is a writer, artist, moderator and muse with a background in poetry.  She studied psychology at Wayne State University and is currently a program manager with Allied Media Projects in Detroit.

As a writer, Scheherazade’s work ranges from personal narrative to formal verse, deconstructing societal, personal and political concepts of duty and family. Her work has been published in journals and as part of The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook anthology, as well as murals, and large scale visual art works.  

She has taught countless writers as Writer In Residence with InsideOut Literary Arts Project, creative writing instructor with Y-Arts Detroit and youth development coach with the Oakland Avenue Artists Coalition.