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Raya is the author of To All the Yellow Flowers (Golden Antelope Press, 2020), which won the Swarthmore Intercultural Center Arts in Activism Award and was listed in Ms. Magazine's 2020 National Poetry Month Roundup, and apocalypse blues (2022), from which selected poems were featured in Moonstone Arts Center's 26th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology. Other publications include Mizna Online, Phoebe Journal and Succarnochee Review.
Before publishing her work, Raya was heavily involved with the Seattle slam poetry scene. In 2019, she helped Team Seattle take third place at Brave New Voices, the largest international youth slam poetry tournament in the world. Noelle Kakimoto listed Raya under "The Best of Brave New Voices 2019." Since then, Raya's maintained her relationship with YouthSpeaks Seattle, and collaborated with Third Charm Films to preserve their great work. In 2021, she and former Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Bitaniya Giday took runner-up in Button Poetry's Emerging Poets video competition category.
Raya writes in search of an echo, a portal, or the gates Sinbad swung through to reach the edge of the world. She believes in literature as a gathering place and a force for liberation.
Before publishing her work, Raya was heavily involved with the Seattle slam poetry scene. In 2019, she helped Team Seattle take third place at Brave New Voices, the largest international youth slam poetry tournament in the world. Noelle Kakimoto listed Raya under "The Best of Brave New Voices 2019." Since then, Raya's maintained her relationship with YouthSpeaks Seattle, and collaborated with Third Charm Films to preserve their great work. In 2021, she and former Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Bitaniya Giday took runner-up in Button Poetry's Emerging Poets video competition category.
Raya writes in search of an echo, a portal, or the gates Sinbad swung through to reach the edge of the world. She believes in literature as a gathering place and a force for liberation.
