Alexis Lawson is a poet, storyteller, daydreamer, and author of the poetry collection The Beauty in my Bare Bones (2019). Alexis received her BA in creative writing from Appalachian State University. She aspires to give readers the key to hundreds of worlds within a lifetime, and to give people who feel forgotten, overlooked, and not included in literature a place to call their own. Alexis intends to break the trauma troupe in literature and reinforce Black joy in narratives. Her work has appeared in Midnight and Indigo, Grown Magazine, and is forthcoming in a McGraw Hill textbook and ColorBloc Magazine. Follow her poetry, short stories, and everyday writer's life at @HerBlackHand.