Anna Snider is a poet, activist, and college student. Anna is from the Twin Cities but currently attends college in Portland, OR. As a high school junior, Anna won a spot on the 2019 BeHeard Cohort -- a youth poetry slam team sponsored by TruArtSpeaks -- where her team attended Brave New Voices, an international youth poetry slam festival. Her work has been featured in her school’s art and literature magazine Iris: art + lit as well as on a Minnesota public radio station, The Current. Anna has won numerous statewide and national competitions, including winning first place in “Literary Magazine Poem†at the 2017 Minnesota High School Press Association Convention, receiving two Gold Medal awards in the 2020 Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards, and a 2020 American Voices Award, also from Scholastic. Anna’s work centers around mental health and trauma recovery, activism, queerness and self-love.