1st Place Poem in the Talking With Trees Poetry Competition. Sponsored by Talking With Trees by Lucia Coppola, Plants & Poetry, and Sausalito Books by the Bay.
Nailah Mathews is a Brooklyn-based nonbinary Black poet to whom books and Black lives matter. Their poetry has been featured in Hennepin Review, Lucky Jefferson, Passenger Journal, the Black Lesbian Literary Collective, and Outlook Springs among others. They are a 2022 Periplus Fellow and a 2023 Anaphora Arts alumn. When not writing, they can be found ankle deep in speculative fiction or wrangling Olive and Martini, their two very bad cats. They can be reached at nailahwritesnovels.com for inquiries.
