In The Loud and Crashing — Zenaida Peterson

Zenaida Peterson is a friend, community member and seeker from the south who is a Boston transplant. They are learning what it means to live and be kinder through nature connection, writing poems and working for Quaker Voluntary Service as the Boston Coordinator and the Director of Equity and Empowerment. Their first kick occur with their mother said their name out loud for the first time and continue naming themselves by calling themselves Black and Queer and non binary. At Summer Camps they are called Calypso Myrtle Mystic Skye Puppet Mcfly. They are an emerging astrologer and tarot reader. Zenaida has competed with and coached poetry at CUPSI, Rust Belt, the National Poetry Slam placing in the top ten each time and winning the last chance slam at WOWPS. Zenaida founded the Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam. You can find their work at Pizza Pi Press, Button Poetry and Slam Find.