monique jonath is a nineteen-year-old queer black poet from Oakland, CA (the ancestral lands of the Ohlone people) who is currently studying gender and sexuality and premedical studies at Brown University. they started writing poetry as a joke in early high school, but it quickly developed into one of their biggest passions. they were a finalist for the position of Oakland Youth Poet Laureate in both 2018 and 2019 and their work has been published in the Youth Speaks anthology Between My Body and the Air (2020), Visitant Lit, and in the Sixteen Rivers Press youth poetry contest. in their free time, they are a peer sexual health educator, contemporary and african dancer, and music enthusiast.
they love hearing from and talking to other poets, so please contact them at moniquejonath@gmail.com or find them on instagram @monique_jonath. have a lovely day, beautiful human!