Rhiannon McGavin
American poet (born 1997)
Rhiannon McGavin (born December 17, 1997) is an American poet and writer. Her books include Branches (Not a Cult, 2017) and Grocery List Poems (Not a Cult, 2021). In 2016 she succeeded Amanda Gorman as Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate. In 2020 she was a writer for the Netflix documentary-series Headspace Guide to Meditation. In 2022 she was named a George J. Mitchell Scholar to Ireland.
Early life and education
McGavin was born in Los Angeles, California on December 17, 1997, to a family of actors. In 2009 she started a popular YouTube account “TheGeekyBlonde,” featuring the series “Condensed Shakespeare.”
She later attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where she studied Theatre. In 2013 she joined Get Lit, a Los Angeles-based education nonprofit founded by author and educator Diane Luby Lane to increase literacy, empower youth, and energize communities through poetry. While there, she formed a Slam Poetry team called “The Poet Puff Girls” with Belissa Escobedo and Zariya Allen. Their poem “Somewhere in America” won the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival.
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