witnessing words
Charlotte Henay is a Bahamian diasporic storyteller, poet, and spiritworker. Her work is rooted in restorative practice, story as relationality, Black feminist spiritwork, and the tending of grief. She listens to the plants and studies dreamwork, shamanic practices for healing and divination, and ancestral pathways into memory, knowledge keeping, and shape shifting.
Her practice moves fluidly between poetry, multidisciplinary making, and scholarship, often returning to the work of speaking with the dead as a way to transform absence into remembrance and healing.
Charlotte holds a PhD from York University and has trained as a death doula, restorative practice practitioner, and community herbalist. She is currently pursuing advanced spirit work training with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. Her writing has appeared in literary and academic journals, and her creative work has been exhibited in the Bahamas, Canada, and internationally.
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