Aaliyah C. Daniels is a teen writer from Hunts Point, The Bronx. She was recently the inaugural winner of the first No Tokens Young Poets Prize and published in the No Tokens Journal. Her work has also been published in 2020: The Year That Changed America Anthology, Collegian Magazine Fall 2019, the Columbia Journal, the Lucille Clifton Anthology in the 92Y publication and more. For two years she has been New York Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador and has performed across the city including the Brooklyn Museum, Nuyorican PoetÕs Cafe, Adidas, JoeÕs Pub, the Apollo stage, the Intrepid, and more. As an activist, she was president of a teen activist organization called A.C.T.I.O.N. that works to dismantle oppression in the South Bronx and was a member of the Youth Justice Board where she worked to pass legislation to protect youth from social media platforms in New York City. Daniels attended Kenyon College for the class of 2023 as an English major with an emphasis in Creative Writing and a concentration in Law. She will be attending Arizona State University in the fall to
obtain her MFA in poetry.