Yolanda (Wisher) Johnson teaches English to high school students at the Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia. Wisher's poetry has appeared in The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review, The American Poetry Review's Philly Edition, Chain, Meridians, Drumvoices, Ploughshares, Fence and Nocturnes. Wisher has read at the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, the Philadelphia Ethical Society, the Philadelphia Clef Club, Pearl of Africa, Wilhemina's, the NotCoffeeHouse series at the First Unitarian Church, Ausar Auset Society in Germantown, The Montgomery Theatre Project, Rutgers University's Gordon Theatre, the Inmate Poetry Project at Graterford Prison, and many other venues. She has also hosted and performed at Panoramic Poetry and Sistah: Volume Two at Brave New World. Her work has been featured on The Bridge at Temple Jazz Radio (WRTI), Power 99's Inner City, and LIVE at the Kelly Writer's House on WXPN. In 1999, Wisher was named the first Montgomery County Poet Laureate. She is one of the co-founders of Poetry for the People, a Philadelphia-based collective that seeks to combine art and activism in public performances and volunteerism. Wisher is also a fellow at Cave Canem, a summer workshop and retreat for African-American poets.