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Mia Tempestt Boykin
  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Remote work location, n/a
  • Office Hours Monday, Thursday 10am - 3pm
  • Mail Stop No Mailstop

Biography, Education and Training

Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and daughter of California. She has a MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral student in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her debut collection of poems, the monumental misrememberings, is published with Co-Conspirator Press. She was chosen for Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices for poetry in 2021, and is currently a creative fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. Her works can be found in Foglifter, Chaparral Press, Interim Poetics, and Honey Literary.