Carmin Wong is a Guyanese-born poet, playwright, digital humanist, and dual-title Ph.D. student in English Literature and African American and Diaspora Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She was raised in South Jamaica, Queens, New York, and she holds a B.A. in English with a minor in Playwriting from Howard University and an M.F.A. in poetry writing from the University of New Orleans. Carmin is the recipient of artist grants from Poets & Writers, Scholastic, Jeremy O. Harris and The Bushwick Starr, and fellowships from the Wild Seeds Writers Retreat, The Watering Hole, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. Her poetry was recognized by the Academy of American Poetry and her poems and interviews were broadcast by WRBH and WPSU radios. Her work is featured online and in print with Xavier Review, Obsidian, The Quarry, Sou’wester, and more. Carmin’s recent play, Finding Home: Adeline Lawson Graham, Colored Citizen of Bellefonte (Pennsylvania State University, 2023) employs the arts and archival research to recollect and reimagine the lost narratives of African American residents of Centre County Pennsylvania in the 19th century. She is the co-author of the choreopoem A Chorus Within Her (Theater Alliance, 2021) and the award-winning Furious Flower Syllabus: Opening the World of Black Poetry (James Madison University, 2024). Carmin spends her free time facilitating writing workshops to youth and system impacted adults in jails and prisons as well as organizing community-led arts and social justice programming. www.thecarminwong.com