Yaya is a queer artist from St. Louis, MO. At the age of eight, she picked up a pen for solace and never looked back, starting with short stories in her youth, before landing upon poetry as her most treasured means of expression. Yaya's poetry explores the romance and whimsy woven into life's intricacies and simplicities; touching on love, loss, resilience, and the present moment.Yaya has been reading books for as long as she's known how to sound out words, falling in love with the stories held between inked pages, and developing a strong sentiment for vocabulary.This, coupled with a rainbow imagination, led to the production of her first chapter book called, "A Kazillion Wishes" at 9 years old, of which she printed out ten copies and distributed to her friends in her fourth grade classroom.Yaya's hobbies include: reading, singing, birdwatching. spending time with the sun and the trees, and writing down the poems that wake her from the deepest of slumbers.