In this her fourth book, Stumblin’ Towards Calvary, Billye Okera journeys through and away from Apostolicism/Pentecostalism and Christian Agnosticism, to find and rest in her relationship with the Creator, in the person of Jesus, while rejecting institutional Christianity. Along the way, she visits stations of toxic religious institutions, toxic family, generational curses, sexual abuse, depression, and suicide, and other mental health and spiritual concerns. A native Washingtonian, Okera has been a poet since the age of 17. In 1996, she became a founding member of the acclaimed D.C. Poetry Group “Collective Voices,” noted for performances throughout the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, as well as abroad, to thunderous applause at multiple venues. She was honored as Poet-in-Progress by D.C. Poet Laureate, the late Deloris Kendrick. She is now also a member of The Write Blend Poetry Collective.

Okera has written and published three volumes of poetry: The Mourners’ Bench and Other Stations of Weeping and Joy; The Days of Me and God; and On the Greyhound to Memphis.   She is playwright, director, and actor of two one-woman plays: Stages and The Mourners’ Bench. Other books in-process are The People Walking By and Hallelujahs and Holocaust.

She is the mother of three, grandmother of eight, and great-grand of two, and lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

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