Voices
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Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native, a second year doctoral student and Yates scholar at the University of Cincinnati. Her chapbook, Bloodwarm, is forthcoming from Variant Lit. This poem was a runner-up in America’s 2021 Foley Poetry Contest.