Arnisha Royston is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominated poet from Los Angeles, California. She holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MFA from San Diego State University. Having started in the spoken-word community and moved closer towards the written page, she is drawn to poetry that is intimate and urgent, with family, love, and Blackness at its center. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in literary journals such as Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, Rhino, and Phoebe, to name a few.