Aiyana Sha’niel

Aiyana Sha’niel is an 18-year-old Black Poet born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She has been writing for over seven years, and her journey of being a poet began at Hamilton High School Academy of the Performing Arts where she wrote and performed on the school’s poetry team, Hamlit. Her poetry topics include, but are not limited to, black liberation, debunking Eurocentric beauty standards, speaking on abuse and assault, women’s rights, and many other issues. Sha’niel has had many individual pieces published nationally through different organizations and magazines. She was Poetry Out Loud’s 2020 County representative for Los Angeles and won second place in the State competition. Sha’niel will be releasing her first collection of poems, titled “Little Black Poetry Book'' by the end of 2021.