heri Purpose Hall is an Interdisciplinary artist and mental health advocate who has performed professionally for over 18 years, receiving multiple awards. Her Spoken Word performance art ranges from high-spirited to somber, casting a reflective lens on mental health, community, family, and womanism in the face of Blackness. Visually, through mixed media, she often crafts broken things into art, showing no matter how broken, there is still beauty in you. Her most recent series, in progress, is “Broken Crayons Still Color.” 

She has Five books: “Stanza and Spice” which is a book of womanism realness and erotica written under the pseudonym Miko Black, a book of poetry, epistles, and essays titled "Black Girl Shattered"(2017); two poetry chapbooks “Mélange du Femme Noir” (2019) and “Chosen for Both” (2015); and a workbook/workshop "Writing Wrongs: Writing to Heal" (2016) which won an award from Bike for the Brain, a non-profit organization that works to reduce mental health stigma.

She is the founder of Arsyn Spit Fire, East of Red ArtHouse, and PenFire Publishing; Executive Director of Poetry for Personal Power; and provides consulting and assistance for many other non-profit, community-based, and arts organizations.

Sheri Purpose Hall is 2023 Poet Warz Champion, 2022 and 2023 Word Play Champion, 2023 National Federation of State Poet Societies Spoken/Written Competition 3rd place, 2022 #2 woman poet in the world WOWPS Virtual 2022 competition, 2020 National Spoken Word Awards Female Spoken Word artist of the year, a 2019 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awardee and Previous two-year Studios Resident, 2019 Art in the loop grant recipient, 2019 and 2017 Arts KC Inspiration Grant recipient, and the 2017 ArtsKC Inspiration Breakfast featured artist. She won the Poet and Activist award at the Music and More Foundation Poetry Awards 2 years in a row and was nominated for best-spoken word artist in the KC People's Choice Awards, Pitch Best KC, and the National Spoken Word Awards. She has also earned the opportunity to represent Kansas City Nationally as an individual competitor at the Women of the World Poetry Slam (years 2017/18/21) and as a team competitor at the National Poetry Slam 4 years in a row.