About Tasjha
I have spent much of my life exploring what it means to be human.
My work lives at the intersection of story, creativity, embodiment, spirituality, healing, and community. Through writing, poetry, contemplative practice, teaching, and public engagement, I create spaces where people can reconnect with themselves, one another, and what matters most.
I am a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator based in Kansas City, Kansas. I hold a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Naropa University and am a 2026–2028 Charlotte Street Studio Resident.
Before becoming an artist full-time, I spent more than two decades working in social services, supporting individuals and families through some of life's most difficult transitions. That experience continues to shape my creative practice and deep commitment to compassion, justice, and human dignity.
I am also an Army veteran, Buddhist practitioner, meditation teacher, yoga educator, and lifelong student of the human experience. These paths are not separate from my creative work; they inform it.
Whether I am writing a poem, facilitating a workshop, offering a Dharma talk, leading a contemplative practice, or speaking in public, I am interested in the same questions:
How do we heal?
How do we belong?
How do we tell the truth?
How do we live with greater presence, courage, and compassion?
This website is a home for my ongoing exploration of those questions through writing, art, teaching, and community engagement.
Thank you for being here.
Choice Without Power
by tasjha dixon
Power is what we grasp for.
Power is what we want.
We reach for power, not love, not community, not each other, we step on and over each other to get our hands on power.
We fight each other for it, we kill each other for it.
We are enchanted with power.
Power is the diamond ring.
I wish I didn’t want power but how can I deny its abilities.
How can I deny the doors it opens?
How can I deny what it can provide?
But maybe I can’t deny the success society has had in making us all buy into it?
I can’t deny that we all believe that.
Even those who have none, want it and those who have it, want more.
But! Is power what we reach for b/c we don’t see love?
b/c we know its power.
But we also know the responsibility that comes with it.
We are afraid of what it requires of us.
We know that love can heal the deepest wounds, we also know that love mishandled can result in the deepest pains…
Tasjha Wanonah Dixon is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator based in Kansas City, Kansas. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University and is a 2026–2028 Charlotte Street Studio Resident. Her work explores story, embodiment, spirituality, creativity, healing, and community through poetry, teaching, contemplative practice, public speaking, and community engagement. She is an Army veteran, longtime Buddhist practitioner, and former social worker whose work centers compassion, justice, and human connection.
Service to her community 1st and foremost
She is from Wyandotte County and graduated Wyandotte High School class of 1997. Tasjha has lived and worked for many years in service to her people, as she lovingly calls them. Wyandotte county is home to vibrant communities, cultural richness, and generations of resilience. It is also statistically one of the most underserved counties in the region.
For more than two decades, Tasjha has worked directly in these communities through social services, education, and wellness programming.
All of her work has been dedicated to her community and has always been a way of honoring the lived experiences, strength, and creativity of the community that shaped this work while creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves and each other.
Her work remains rooted in Kansas City and Wyandotte County while beautifully expanding to all parts of the country!