SEX WEEK DAY 3: Sex is Liberating

Hannah Sawyer

https://www.hannahsawyerr.com/bio

Hannah V. Sawyerr is a Sierra Leonean-American writer with a passion for people and poetry. For Hannah's literary and community involvement, she was recognized as the 2016 Youth Poet Laureate of Baltimore, an honor awarded by DewMore Baltimore, the Baltimore Mayor's Office, Urban Word NYC, and Enoch Pratt Libraries. For her original poem “For Girls Growing Into Their Hips”, she was awarded a National Medal in the NAACP Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) in the category of poetry. She has also been featured on the British Broadcasting Channel's (BBC) "World Have Your Say" program, as well as the National Education Association's "Do You Hear Us" Campaign for her original poem "A Salone Man's Refuge" regarding the experience of her refugee father and her experience as a first generation American. Her written work has been featured in several publications such as ROOKIE, Sesi Mag, Theories of HER and more. Currently, she is a 2020 Pitch Wars mentee, and is earning her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at The New School.