The embodiment of the melting pot, Sabrina Hayeem-Ladani is of Iraqi/Indian-Jewish and Yemenite-Israeli descent. Born and raised in NYC, Sabrina has been a member of the Albuquerque Poetry Experiment, a spoken word/music ensemble, has performed with Organic Ghetto, a live poetry collaboration with The African Space Project, and has opened in concert for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. She also served as coach of the 1998 Albuquerque Poetry Slam Team. Since her move back to Manhattan she has featured as a singer/spoken word artist at Joe's Pub in the show Harlem Essay and in various venues in New York City. She has also become co-curator of synonymUS, a live poetry collaboration workshop, and is a member of the louderARTS Project, a not-for-profit arts collective committed to developing challenging spaces for artists to create, critique, present and teach poetry. This spring she will travel to Jamaica to perform her work in the 2003 Calabash International Literary Festival. Sabrina's work is available in her self-published chapbook, Harsh Miracles.