Tramaine Suubi (she/they) is a multilingual Bantu writer. They were born by the Nile River and raised by the Potomac River. They are an alum of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Yellow Arrow Writer-in-Residence. Their poems live in Brink Literary Magazine, Solstice Literary Magazine, and other spaces. Tramaine is the managing editor of Writivism and is officially represented by the Creative Arts Agency. Their forthcoming book debut is a full-length poetry collection called “phases.” This first collection and a second collection will both be published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins. Tramaine is in love with all things water.