Ursula Rucker

Ursula Rucker is a Philadelphia born interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history, family, and place. She has released five albums and traveled and toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. She has collaborated with a wide range of artists outside of the field of poetry, including The Roots, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, King Britt, and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Clarence Williams III. She describes her live performance memoir, My Father’s Daughter, as “90 minutes of self-truth and discovery.”