Tianna Bratcher

Tianna Bratcher is a Black, queer, genderfluid poet, performer, and teaching artist. Their work has been published in Poetry, Voicemail Poems, Muzzle Magazine, Shade Literary Arts, december magazine, and other publications. They placed fifth at the US National Poetry Slam in 2017 and seventh in the world at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2020. Bratcher was a Queer Emerging Artist Resident at Destiny ARTS in 2017. They are pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Randolph College.

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Water of the womb

By Tianna Bratcher

It is winter in Anchorage, and I am only as tall as the shoveled snowbanks in the parking lot of the pink apartments. I am old enough to have chores but young enough not to fully understand frostbite. It is...

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