Benin Lemus (she|her) is an LA-based poet and educator. Born in La Mesa, California, and raised in Portland, Oregon, she has called many places home, including North Carolina where she attended Bennett College for Women, an HBCU where she earned a degree in English Literature. Her debut poetry collection, Dreaming in Mourning, is published by World Stage Press. She is a 2022 Inaugural Workshop Fellow with Obsidian Magazine’s O|Sessions: Black Listening–A Performance Master Class and the 2022 Honorable Mention in the Furious Flower Poetry Center’s annual poetry competition. Benin’s work is published online and in print, most recently in Márọkọ́: Journal of African Poetry and TORCH Literary Arts.
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