My poems can make a difference!

Benin Lemus (she|her) is an LA-based poet and educator, whose debut poetry collection, Dreaming in Mourning, was published by World Stage Press in 2022. She is a 2022 Inaugural Workshop Fellow with Obsidian Magazine’s O|Sessions: Black Listening–A Performance Master Class and the 2022 Honorable Mention in the Furious Flower Poetry Center’s annual poetry competition. Her writing has appeared in multiple literary journals, such as Callaloo, Consequence, TORCH Literary Arts Magazine, Maroko: Journal of African Poetry, among others. Benin served as the 2024 Finalist Judge for AWP’s (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) “Intro to Journals” competition for poetry and is a poetry instructor at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.

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