Essah Cozett Díaz, Ph.D. is a Liberian-American poet, digital humanist, and community organizer. Her research is rooted in African diaspora literature, oral traditions, and spiritual practices. Díaz is currently a senior research fellow of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab (DSL) a multi-institutional Black feminist digital humanities partnership. She also serves as the editor of the Archive Liberia Anthology. Díaz was a 2022 Pathways intern with the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Díaz served two terms as Chair of the Caribbean Without Borders Graduate Student Conference. In 2016, she founded Hermanas del Agua, the Puerto Rican chapter of the SisterCARE Alliance, to create a safe space for women and non-binary people to practice strategic self-care. Díaz is a co-editor of the collections Mothering, Community, and Friendship (Demeter Press, 2022) and Distancing as Infinite Entanglement: Healing, Intersectionality and Interstices in the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Greater Caribbean and Beyond (University of Curaçao, 2021). She is also an alumna of the Obsidian Foundation and the Young Scholars of Liberia. Her writing has appeared in several international print and online publications.