Shreya is a rising high school senior at West High School in Iowa City. She currently serves as the Inaugural Iowa Student Poet Ambassador for the 2021-2022 academic year. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Writing Awards and can be found, or is forthcoming, in Polyphony Lit and the Rising Phoenix Press. She hopes to write a bestselling novel one day.
The music for this podcast is "Ira" by Blake Shaw.
Ongoing support comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Iowa Arts Council, and from the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund. Phase 1 is an initiative of Arts Midwest and its peer United States Regional Arts Organizations made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Writers of Color Reading Series is produced by the Englert in Iowa City, Iowa, and is supported by Friends of the Englert. Visit www.englert.org/friends to support our programming.
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Host: Jesus “Chuy” Renteria
Line Producer & Audio Engineer: Savannah Lane
Executive Producers: John Schickedanz & Andre Perry
