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Shaina Phenix is a queer, Black femme poet, other-art-maker, educator from Harlem, NY. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Virginia Tech and is the 2021-2022 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is—her work is—obsessed with and possessed by many sounds of Black femmes, the passing down of stories, ocean, the body, mothering, acts of loving, and home(s). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in West Branch, Glass Poetry, Foglifter Press, Salt Hill, The Pinch, Puerto del Sol, Frontier Poetry, Shenandoah, The Offing, and CRAFT Magazine.