Alora Young

Writer, Actor, and Youth Poet Laureate

Alora Young is the Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. She is a presidential scholar of the arts, a two-time TEDx Speaker, a scholastic gold medalist, a Young arts winner in spoken word, a recipient of the Princeton Prize in Race Relations, Spring Robinson literary prize, the Lin Arison excellence in writing award, and the International Human Rights Day rising advocate award. She is the founder of AboveGround, an organization seeking to create equity in Nashville elementary schools through creative writing and Black history. She has publications in or upcoming in the New York Times, Rattle, Washington Post, Signal Mountain Review, Rigorous Mag, and Ice Colony Jornal. Her Book Walking Gentry Home will be released by hogarth books in august 2022.