Unique Robinson is a poet/MC, professor, community educator, host, and proud Baltimore native. She received her MFA in English/Creative Writing from Mills College, and a BA in Creative Writing/Black Studies from Hampshire College. Unique has a background in Community Organizing and national Reproductive Justice work, and is a lifelong artivist, with 20+ years of performance experience throughout the US and Havana, Cuba.

Through writing and performance, she consistently works within communities to promote change and collective healing through creativity. Locally, Unique has worked as a Poetry Teaching Artist, and in administrative roles for various organizations, including DewMore Baltimore, LTYC, AFRO Charities, & The Lyric Baltimore. Unique received the Emerging Teaching Artist award from Arts Every Day in 2017, The Grit Fund Grant in 2019, and various other grants. She was the cover feature for Baltimore Magazine’s GameChangers in 2022, and a Baker Artist Awards Finalist in 2025.

Unique is the Director of MICA’s MFA Community Arts Program, and the facilitator for The LightHouse, a free monthly writing workshop at Motor House for intergenerational communities. Unique has also facilitated arts education literary programming for Baltimore Museum of Art, American Visionary Art Museum, and was the Curator for The Walters Art Museum’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration for three consecutive years (2024-2026).