Alora Young

Alora Young is an actress, writer, and the Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. She is a two-time TEDx Speaker, a scholastic gold medalist, a Young arts winner in spoken word, a recipient of the Princeton Prize in Race Relations, Spring Robinson literary prize, the Lin Arison excellence in writing award, and the International Human Rights Day rising advocate award. She is the founder of AboveGround, an organization seeking to create equity in Nashville elementary schools through creative writing and Black history. She has publications in or upcoming in the New York Times, Rattle, Washington Post, Signal Mountain Review, Rigorous Mag, and Ice Colony Jornal she has wanted to be a poet since the age of 2 and hopes to one day be the world's greatest grandma/supreme court justice.