Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum is a poet, a performance artist, and a public historian. She serves as a Co-Director of the Providence Poetry Slam. She is a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, and a recipient of Lambda Literary's Justin Chin Memorial Scholarship. She was a finalist in the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and her teams were champions of the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam and the first-ever FEM Slam. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series, The Nation, Them, The Offing, and Button Poetry.