Martina "Mick" Powell

Martina “Mick” Powell is a queer black fat femme feminist poet who uses she/her pronouns and likes revolutionary acts of resistance. She obtained a B.A. in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies and a concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Connecticut. Besides writing poetry, Mick loves learning about flowers and thinking about magnolia trees. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Feminist Wire, Black Girl Dangerous, the Long River Review, Winter Tangerine, and The Fem. She is one of the Associate Editors of the Emerging Feminisms section at The Feminist Wire.