Ray JaneRay Jane is a Black female poet born in Brooklyn and raised in Far Rockaway Queens. She uses her poetry to lift herself and other women of color. Always aiming to strengthen her voice, Ray Jane won the Verb Benders slam poetry team's inaugural poetryslam and was published in Lalibreta.online an online poetry journal for Women in Creative Rebellion (2021, 2022). She has participated in poetic writing workshops focused on empowering women like "RoblesWrites Presents: Respite, Write, and Release? amongst many others and served as contributing editor for the anthology Love Letters to Gaia (2021). She has also moderated her own workshops with ¡Oyé Group! Poet's Corner (2021 and 2022) and Art Defined Inc. She also runs her own open mics as the host of The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Thursday Night Online Open mic (2022-Present) and for The Word Is Write. You can hear more of how she uses her voice in over 50 recorded poems on SoundCloud (https: //soundcloud.com/jay-ray-11), walking around NYC on the app Hear, Before https: //www.hearbefore.nyc/; and on several podcasts including We Be Imagining/Black Siren Radio, and Sound Minds Podcast's "Potent Women Wordsmiths". For more, including full artist CV visit ItsRayJane.com. Read More Read Less