Zora Howard is a Harlem-bred multidisciplinary creator and performer. In 2009, she was named the inaugural New York City Youth Poet Laureate by the Office of the Mayor of New York City. Since then, her work, both as a writer and performer, has been showcased on HBO, TV One, PBS, and NBC. Her first collection of poems, CLUTCH, was published under Penmanship Books in 2010. Forthcoming, her work will be included in Poets Laureate and Social Justice (MSU Press, 2018). She holds a BA from Yale University and MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Presented with O, Miami Poetry Festival.