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. Their writing explores the silence in grief and rejoice in healing. She received her MFA in Poetry from Mills College and is a 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow and Rosemary’s House Fellow, as well as a 2023 grant recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission. 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 - 2025 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, and a finalist for the 2021 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her work can be found in Foglifter Journal, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, KALW, and more.

Find them on Instagram at @brianagrogan and Substack.