Leija Farr joins Book Flood

Leija Farr is Seattle's first youth poet laureate, from 2015 to 2016. She is 20 year old who's passion for poetry took hold after winning a contest at age 12, with a poem about teens and drug use. Her writing fearlessly tackles topics like social justice, women’s empowerment, and self-love. Her poetry collection Outweigh the Gravity  was published in 2016 by Penmanship Books.

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