Watering the fruits of my psyche/
Blooming tulips to woo the muses/
Inspiration sings/
Like mood music/
Setting the scene/
For the story of a lifetime/

Let's cut to the chase. I'm Leyelle, an 18-year-old African-American and Dominican author-poet from Maryland, USA. I'm aggressively precocious so at age fifteen I became a published author for lyrical essays in a women's magazine, and in 2023 I won the H.G. Wells Short Story Competition Junior Category and became a recipient of the Turnill prize (humble brag.) My personality is 90% boss, but I'm passionate about telling the story of the other 10%, the crazy, ugly, and beautiful moments that hurt like poetry.