Jalynn Harris is a poet, educator, editor, and press founder from Baltimore, MD.  She founded SoftSavagePress for the sole purpose of promoting visual and literary works by Black people. She earned her MFA from the University of Baltimore, where she was the inaugural recipient of Michael F. Klein fellowship for social justice. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Poem-A-Day, The Best American Poetry 2022, Transition Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, Feminist Studies, and elsewhere. Her first collection of poems, Exit Thru the Afro, can be purchased below!