Queen Sheba

*23 Years of stage experience from cafe to coliseum
*Shows up 30-90 minutes before call time
*Diverse background
*Relatable pieces for any audience from teenagers to adults
* Management Team
*Social Media Team
*Real-life fans that show up and purchase tickets (with proper promotions)
*High fashion and a mean shoe game
*Positive Personality and grateful for each experience
*A long reach to other artists to help fill your showcase

Quotes:
"Anyone who complains that spoken-word poetry is boring and predictable hasn't heard Queen Sheba's Domino Affect …" –Creative Loafing Magazine

“Bethsheba A. Rem’s life is a wonderful example of how extreme adversity can create compelling art. Her story reads like a gripping novel, complete with abandonment, betrayal and ultimately, triumph.” - Rolling Out Magazine

"Sheba's stories are honest, funny, poignant and necessary. Her poetic memoir is a celebration of survival, and demonstrates the power and capacity of a young woman's heart. Poems save lives, and I am thankful this particular writer is full of life, and sharing her world with the rest of us." -jessica Care moore Publisher, Author Moore Black Press

"Queen Sheba is a dynamic performer…."- Nikki Giovanni

I've known Bethsheba Rem over a decade; her drive to share a gift was both evident and clear on day one. When a writer has the moxy and chops to bathe in what most consider the ether of discomfort; that which is yet, for a few of us, you know those of us who bask in exposing our innards for the greater good: Ms. Rem has long written well enough to simultaneously move souls and help minds wax toward true light.
-Taalam Acey MBA Rutgers University Internationally Acclaimed Poet & Political Activist

"In Long Story Short From Foster Care to Fame," Bethsheba A. Rem is so unapologetically herself. She offers no buffers. No filters. No edits. She graces the page with her most raw, authentic, and uninhibited honesties, stories, and realities. She embraces a style of ancient epic poetry: extended in its storytelling - full, expansive, and vast. No moments are left unnoticed. No details are left untouched. Bethsheba has used her pen, her voice, and her words to usher us toward a glimpse of her soul. What a triumph - no morsel of her body silenced in her telling of her journey. If only we could all be so brave - no matter what our own truths."
- Caroline Rothstein M.S. Graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

"A wryly witty and complex portrait of a post-black, hip-hop, pro-fem champion of off-beat outcaste everywhere; Her work is a hybrid: part-narrative, part spoken word on page. Bethsheba vacillates between glee and pain--love and anger--her contradiction is her strength. Her poems are bullets that pierce vessels. We are forever disarmed"
-Khalilah Ali Ph.D author "The Dao of Womanist Hip-Hop"

ARTIST RESUME 2024: QUEEN SHEBA|BETHSHEBA A. REM

QUEEN SHEBA|BETHSHEBA A. REM
2025 & 2024 Grammy Nominated Artist|Spoken Word-Poetry category

“You are one of the most talented writers in our entire genre.” -Michael Harriot, 2x NY Times Best Selling Author of Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed Story of America

Queen Sheba is a 2025 & 2024 GRAMMY NOMINATED artist in the Spoken Word-Poetry category for Album of the Year for her 10th album: “CIVIL WRITES: The South Got Something to Say” is Queen Sheba’s 2nd GRAMMY Nominated album in the Spoken Word-Poetry category.

Sheba is a 2025 TEDxGeorgiaCollege Speaker

Born in Kalamazoo, MI, and grew up in Detroit, living in Atlanta GA since Aug 2005 - she is the first woman back to back and the only Poet from Atlanta to be named. The album also includes the single for the viral video: “Killer MIC” which speaks to her journey south.

This time, not only was Queen Sheba nominated for Best Poetry Album of the Year, she
was also selected to present at the 2025 Grammys during the Premier Ceremony!

“The Grammys are like the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Recording and
Artists in the sciences,” says Queen Sheba.

Her first Grammy Nomination in 2024 for her 9th album “A-You’re Not Wrong B-They’re Not Either” garnered productions by Robert Glasper, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Triumph Reigns, & Clayco.

Queen Sheba’s work was featured on the Grammy-nominated album “F-Your Feelings” by Robert Glasper; track 11.

As a Voting Member of the Atlanta Recording Academy Grammy Chapter since 2008*, she has served several terms as a Grammy U Mentor, teaching college students about the billion-dollar Art and Entertainment industry and currently serves on the Education and National Poetry Membership committees.

Black History Month 2025 Lexus USA (the car company), ALL DEF DIGITAL and DPL (Da Poetry Lounge) Productions produced a documentary about Queen Sheba’s life, the Grammys, and being a black poet. A huge moment for the Queen Sheba as well as the Spoken Word community, as one of the first major “follows” produced by a commercialized company that sought to maintain the integrity of the Spoken Word culture.

Sheba is also a featured performer on season two of Verses and Flow, brought to you by Lexus on TV One, Married to Medicine, and has performed on the TV show Spoken, a featured poet on Lyric Café on BET, 106 & Park, the Apollo and the feature-length film ‘Spit’ and was the co-host to Joyce Littel’s Poetic Moments on the Quiet Storm, Atlanta’s #1 Station for Hip-Hop & RnB - V103 - The People’s Station.

Queen Sheba is the Founder of Poetry vs. Hip-Hop, the acclaimed touring stage show, and production company (Est. Sept 29, 2015/JUNE 2016), which has given away almost a million dollars in its tenure, producing shows in over 25 cities and is currently touring City Winery venues across the country. Currently celebrating its 10th Anniversary Tour, on the road, set to sew roots back home in Atlanta, after 2025. “Never, say ‘never’,” says Queen Sheba in a recent blog interview - “but somebody else has to cut the check,” she jokes.

Sheba is a two-time NAACP Image Award nominee, Creative Loafing’s People’s Choice Spoken Word Artist of the Year, and the recipient of the City of Atlanta, Patreon, and Furious Flower artist grants.

Queen Sheba earned her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and is the author of several books, including but not limited to: “From Foster Care to Fame,” her first book of poems and short stories and Run Ugly! A motivational book for runners. Her second book of poems, “Clemency: poems to help you get over the apologies you will never receive,” edited by her graduate professors as her graduating thesis, [but not limited to], National Book Award Nominee Claudia Rankin and National Book Award Winner Ada Limon, is due out August 11 2025.

As if she doesn’t have enough to do, also in 2025, Sheba also released her 11th studio album, A Hurricane in Heels: Healed People Don’t Act Like This, alongside her highly anticipated book A-TENSION SEEKER: life in the fast brain, which explores neurodivergence, healing, and memory through memoir, metaphor, real-life therapy discussion notes and poetry.

In 2023, Sheba survived a sudden traumatic brain injury that resulted in a 45-minute, temporary, short-term memory loss and hospitalization. Doctors were unable to determine the cause, and in true Sheba fashion, she discharged herself early. The experience reshaped her creative process, sharpened her sense of urgency, and is now woven into the themes of her forthcoming book A-TENSION SEEKER. She speaks openly about the intersection of trauma, healing, and neurodivergence — not as dysfunction, but as difference.

The way this global super-star keeps grounded is by rooting in her community: A former candidate for the Atlanta Public School Board, a previous professor of Creative Writing at the Historical Black Clark Atlanta University Sheba taught over 20+ students how to self-publish their books, published two of her classes into on anthology for the English Department lead by Dr. Georgene Bess and received “Professor of the Month Award October 2023” personally delivered by the Provost.

Her works have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including [but not limited to]:
Voyage ATL, Creative Loafing, Rolling Out and the focus of college students’ papers all over the country and she received the (Atlanta) Gentlemen’s Foundation ‘Gentle Woman of Artistry’ Artist of the Year award for her work in the LGBT community for HIV Prevention.

Among other awards in her expertise, Queen Sheba has earned awards as an Int’l 4-Countries Slam Champion, two-time National Poetry Slam Champ, three-time Regional Poetry Slam Champ and as a Women of the World & Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist, and an Association for Performance of College Activities (APCA) - Performer of the Year Nominee.

In 2020, during the global pandemic, Sheba was invited, by the city of Atlanta, to participate in a collection of poetry, short stories & visual art. A few months later Sheba was awarded the 2021 Girlfriend’s “Visionary Award” by peer nomination. Rest in Peace and Power to the Founder of the Girlfriend’s Award and Brunch, who passed away from breast cancer in 2021.

[Queen Sheba was adopted by a German and Polish family in 1977, in Jackson, MI, at the age of two and a half. After a lot of red tape – the family then moved to Detroit, MI where Sheba grew up – a brown girl in the throws of the Black Power Movement of the 80s – in the heart of the city – while navigating her identity as a young black woman being raised by people that did not look like- but loved her through her formative years.

At the age of 15 – Sheba and her adoptive family split and she was enrolled in Wedgewood Acres; a youth home in Grand Rapids, MI, where she graduated high school from Grand Rapids Central and went on to become a graduate of Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, VA and then later went on to earn her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte.]

Corporate collaborations include but aren’t limited to: lululemon, City Winery, Reebok/Rockport, Red Bull, United Way

Spoken Word Artist, Poet, Author, Motivational Speaker, Comedian, Dj, dog mom, mother and bathroom concert singer, Sheba tours internationally and has conducted performances and workshops at over 300 colleges and universities domestically and abroad.

A small business owner and Social Impact and Thought Leader in Atlanta, you can join her community on all social media to find out what Queen Sheba has coming up next!

IG & TikTok Community:
@thequeensheba | @poetryvshiphop
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Awards & Honors
2025 - GRAMMY nominated Spoken Word-Poetry category 10th album
2024 – GRAMMY nominated Poet Spoken Word Category 9th album
2021 – Guest Poet on Robert Glasper’s Grammy Nominated album “F-Your Feelings” track #11
2021 – League of Girlfriends’ Visionary Award
2018 - Creative Loafing’s Poet of the Year
2018- Gentlemen’s Foundation Artistry of the Year
Awarded Book Serge book deal
Virginia Fellowship Winner for an individual artist
Poets & Writers Artist Grants
Homegirls Make Some Noise Nominated for NAACP Image Award for participation in the Anthology
Nominated for NAACP Image Award- Verses & Flow
Check the Rhyme from Lit Noire Publishing, Nyc
Nominated: APCA Poetry Performer of the Year

Discography
• A-Civil Writes B-The South Got Something to Say - July 2024
• A-You’re Not Wrong B-You’re Not Either -Aug 2023
• The F-It Pill – Aug 2022
• F Yo’ Feelings – Robert Glasper, featured on track 11, -Oct 2019

International Performances:
Vancouver, CA
Winnipeg, CA
Antigua, West Indies
Accra, Ghana – West Africa Panafest International Music Festival*
Cuba – Study
Holland-Amsterdam & Rotterdam
Toronto, Canada
Cannes, France
Paris, France
Edinburgh, Scotland
Frome, England
London, England
Munich, Germany
Kysaslouter, Germany
Oxford, England
Isreal, Tel Aviv

Conferences and Seminars
Georgia State University Hip-Hop’s Golden 50 Anniversary Panel
Women Living with HIV Conference DC – Oct 23
Black History Month: I Am My Ancestor’s Wildest Dreams Expo - Minneapolis, MN
Take Back the Night – two-tim Keynote Speaker
Furious Flower – James Madison University
Gwendolyn Brooks Writers Conference
NICOSTY Conference for Teachers and Social Workers 2x speaker
Mothers Against the War march
Caucus for Negro Women DC
Ethiopian Embassy AIDS –lecture/performance
Shades Retreat – LGBT Women of Color
Alternate Roots 2009 & 10
Television|Radio|Podcasts
*extreme partial listing

Publications
*extreme partial listing

The Poet’s List Magazine
Check the Rhyme Nominated for NAACP Image Award for participation in the Anthology from Lit Noire Publishing, Nyc
Creative Loafing Cover Story
National Poetry Feature for Rolling Out Magazine
Essence Magazine
Vibe Magazine Online

Published Books
2025 Clemency: poems to accept the apologies you will never receive
2012- Long Story Short: From Foster Care to Fame Long-er Poems & Short
Two Fingers Press – Chicago, IL

Comedy
• 18 Year – longest-running host at Atlanta’s Apache Café
• Don’t Be Stupid Web-a-sode Host for Tommy Ford (Martin/Harlem Nights)
• Guest Host a week at the Funny Bone Richmond, VA for Rodney Perry (co-host of the Monique Show)
• Comedy Zone: Charlotte, Johnson City, TN, Ft. Mill celebrities include: Jimmy JJ Walker, Dave Martin and many more

Dj: Clubs and Venues:
… too many to count but a few notable ones include but are not limited to –
• City Winery Atlanta
• Apache Café – the original and 2.0
• Booked in advance for Birmingham Black Pride Weekend 2022
• Virgil’s Gullah Kitchen
• Sneakers & Barz Sneaker Ball
• Cyn Sum Luv Radio

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A solo artist/Spoken Word-Poet Feature and/or Event Host or MC:
1 vocal mic
Clean stage - free of cords

With a band*:
Drums
Keys
Bass
Background singer
2 vocal mics

With a Dj:
Dj
background singer
2 vocal mics