etymology of flight – a venn diagram
dezireé a. brown
dezireé a. brown (they/he) is a Black queer nonbinary Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, interdisciplinary scholar, and sjw, born and raised in Flint, MI. They received their PhD in English with concentrations in Black Studies and Gender & Women's Studies from the University of Illinois Chicago, and they received an MFA from Northern Michigan University. He was selected as a 2024 Editor-In-Chief for The Seventh Wave Magazine, often claiming to have been born with a poem written across his chest, and their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Foglifter Journal, wildness, Four Way Review, Obsidian, and the anthology A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living, among others.