Alyssa G.

I am a recent Harvard graduate, the 2022 National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, and a recipient of Harvard’s Edward Eager Memorial Prize for creative writing. At Harvard, I studied Social Studies and the History of Art and Architecture with a secondary field in English, an interdisciplinary education that trained me to write across the humanities while thinking carefully about argument, structure, evidence, and voice. My own writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Ms. M…