Spencer Jewell is a writer originally from Nashville, Tennessee, and an MFA candidate in poetry at Louisiana State University. She received her undergraduate degree in creative writing in Bellingham, Washington, where she worked as the poetry editor for Jeopardy Magazine. Jewell's first encounter with storytelling was holding her grandmother's sweet tea as she braided her hair and gossiped on the front porch of an old house on Peach Tree Street, and she's been crafting her own mythos from the ruins ever since. In high school, she was a semi-finalist for the 2022 National Student Poets Program and received a National Silver Medal in Poetry from Scholastic. Her favorite forms of literature are songs, storms, and stories told on porches. She loves reading apocalypse narratives, Southern family memoirs, and poems that meander. In her own work, she’s inspired by memory, music, monsoon, and mythology. When she’s not writing, she’s usually baking up a storm in her kitchen, looking for lighthouses, hosting a tea party, or sitting by the sea. Right now, she's probably nursing a cup of earl grey and praying for rain from her kitchen window. Her poems and lyric essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Brink, Radar Poetry, Chestnut Review, Bluestem, Delta Poetry Review, Poetry South, and others. Find more of her art, writing, events, & publications on Instagram: @lettersfromspence