Maurya Kerr(she/her) is a bay area-based writer and artist. Her poetry has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes, appears in multiple journals, including Magma Poetry and Poet Lore, and is anthologized in The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. She most recently won the 2022 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Her first chapbook, MUTTOLOGY (Small Harbor Publishing), was published in 2023. Find out more about the author at tinypistol.com/poetry