Mia Word is a poet hailing from the Mississippi Delta. Her poetry is often influenced by her Southern upbringing and heritage, rooted in Blues, ancestry and storytelling. She is a recent graduate of Harvard University, where she received the Edward Eager Memorial Prize for Creative Writing and the David McCord Prize for Depth of Talent in the Literary Arts. She has been a featured poet at the Harvard Art Museum and her work is forthcoming and has appeared in the Yale University Press, Indigo Magazine and The Harvard Gazette.