Sheena Powell Szuri is a Miami native who comes to the Writer’s Room at the Betsy to complete her first collection of poems “Polyhymnia”, a passion of truth, beauty and love drawn from nature, personal relationships and art with music as muse. As part of a thriving South Florida poetry community, Sheena is proudly affiliated with the Miami Poets, Florida State Poets Association and Famous Last Fridays at Books & Books. She has presented original works in live reads at the O, Miami Poetry Festival, the USpeak Open Verse and Story Performance Series, and Odd Blue Roses. As a member of the South Florida Writers’ Association she has served as poetry and prose judge for the Junior Orange Bowl Creative Writing contest and the Miami VA Creative Arts Festival. Sheena is a Yoga teacher with a day job as a Scientist. As an amateur poet she is still looking for the answers and still dreaming through poetry in her own lyrical voice over the scaffolding of free verse.