Briana Grogan (she/they) is a Black queer femme from Southern California. Her poetry found form in San Francisco, where they live and work as a community birth worker. She was a 2023 grant recipient of the San Francisco Artist Commission. They received their MFA in Poetry from Mills College. Her writing explores the silence in grief and rejoice in healing. They were an artist in residence at Art House San Clemente, the Guest Poetry Editor for Foglifter Journal Vol. 8, an assistant judge for the 2023 and 2024 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, and a finalist for the 2021 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her work can be found in Foglifter Journal, The Ana, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, KALW, and more. 

Find them on Instagram at @brianagrogan and Substack.