Makayla Terrell, is a recent graduate of Shelbyville High School, in Shelbyville Indiana. While in school she had the opportunity to be her schools first black female to be senior class president and also had the opportunity to captain two sports teams. She now attends Indiana University to study exercise science on the pre med track and to hopefully become a sports physician for a sports team one day.
Maykayla Terrell
"Imagine"
Sarah Holston is a student from Troy, New York who studies international affairs. She enjoys writing poems about her family, current events, and identity. She loves museums, bookstores, and any place that serves hot chocolate. Her work has been featured in Voice of Eve, Closet Cases anthology and Blue Marble Review.
Sarah Holston
"Sister Africana"
Gabrielle is an eighth grader from Columbus, Ohio who loves reading and writing. She is a diligent student who is the leader of a small dance group and a frequent participant in school plays. She hopes that other girls like her can be inspired by her poem. She loves studying Mandarin and Korean, hanging out with her friends and watching K-Dramas. Olivia is also her big sister.
Gabrielle Clarke
"Repeat"
Aminah Aliu is a 16-year-old senior attending Chadwick School in Southern California. She enjoys creative writing, specifically poetry, and she has received numerous awards for her work in poetry and flash fiction. After school, she is often found volunteering at the coding-based community service site she co-founded with her older sister or teaching workshops at the poetry club she founded in tenth grade. As the second-oldest of five children, Aminah has many responsibilities, but she also maintains many hobbies including crocheting, watching anime, discussing philosophy, and her latest addition, playing the ukulele. You can find her on instagram @ami.aliu
Aminah Aliu
"Crowns Upon My Head"
"Making Amends"
"Cotton Kin"
Tiia McKinney is a student artist and a writer from The Bahamas. She is a 17-year-old, documenting her unique experiences attending a predominantly white institution. When she is not writing or painting, she enjoys a great documentary or swimming to relax.
Tiia McKinney
"Dear Black Girl"
"Falling in Love with Blackness: The Magic of a Collective"
I’m Ndeye Thioubou, a current high school senior born and raised in The Bronx, NY. I love spending my time by playing/watching/reading tennis, watching Netflix, and keeping myself up to date on current events. Being a Senegalese Muslim woman I thought it was important to contribute to this work and uplift other Black girls! Follow me on Instagram @awaxndeye and feel free to reach out.
Ndeye Thioubou
"Mirror Mirror on the Wall"
Gabby Anthony is the author of “It’s Important to Know the Difference." She is currently a senior in high school and participates in Robotics, she is a thespian who works on the theater crew, and apart of her school’s Black student union. In 2018 she had the opportunity to attend the Nashville, Tennessee Student Diversity Leadership Conference, along with Olivia Clarke. Since then she has been an active member of her community in efforts to improve her school diversity and equity policy and class curriculum. Currently she is working with a small group of students to provide support for fellow students of color in predominantly white institutions.
Gabby Anthony
"It's Important to Know the Difference"
Katie Quander
"Black to Basic and Back"
Tiara McKinney is a seventeen year old who was born and raised in The Bahamas. She has three siblings and grew up with her twin sister and her mother. Although Tiara schools in New Jersey in the United States, she celebrates her culture at home and enjoys writing poems about her home country and going to the beach in her free time.
Tiara McKinney
"How Assimilation Changed My Identification with My Culture"
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