A DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR ABOUT GENDER

Mia S. Willis is a Black performance poet from Charlotte, North Carolina, whose work has been featured in Adroit Journal, homology lit, VIDA Review, Narrative Northeast, Recenter Press Poetry Journal, Slam-find, and others. In 2019, they were named a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry, Young Artist Fellow at Chashama’s ChaNorth residency, a collaborator in Forward Together’s Transgender Day of Resilience Art Project, and a performing artist on RADAR Productions’ Sister Spit 2020 Tour. Mia is also the author of monster house., the 2018 winner of the Cave Canem Foundation’s Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize. Their debut full-length poetry collection is forthcoming.