by Ariana Brown
Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet based in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the poetry collections We Are Owed. (Grieveland, 2021) and Sana Sana (Game Over Books, 2020). She holds a BA in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies, an MFA in Poetry, and an MS in Library and Information Science. Ariana is a national collegiate poetry slam champion, winner of two Academy of American Poets prizes, and has been writing, teaching, and performing poetry since 2009.