Jasmine L. Combs
Jasmine L. Combs is a writer, educator, and spoken word artist from Philadelphia. Her work has been published in various literary journals including Apiary Magazine, Vagabond City Lit, Vinyl Poetry, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She has competed in poetry slams both locally and nationally, winning the Philly Grand Slam Championship in 2015, College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) in 2016, and was a semi-finalist at the 2015 National Poetry Slam.
Jasmine’s love for literature began at an early age and eventually led her to study creative writing at The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts. In 2016 she received her BA in English from Temple University, where she also served as creative editor for the undergraduate literary magazine and events coordinator for Babel Poetry Collective.
Jasmine’s work focuses on the personal as universal, the intersecting relationships between Blackness, womanhood, girlhood, mental illness, love, and home. She is the author of two small collections of poetry, Universal Themes (2014) and This Drowning Was A Baptism (2019). In addition to writing, Jasmine is also passionate about community building and resource infrastructure for artists in Philly. She currently works as a freelance editor and teaching artist, performing her work and facilitating writing and performance workshops. Additionally, she serves as slammaster for The Philly Pigeon Poetry Slam and a manuscript editor (Literary BAE) at Good Ground Publishing.
Jasmine’s love for literature began at an early age and eventually led her to study creative writing at The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts. In 2016 she received her BA in English from Temple University, where she also served as creative editor for the undergraduate literary magazine and events coordinator for Babel Poetry Collective.
Jasmine’s work focuses on the personal as universal, the intersecting relationships between Blackness, womanhood, girlhood, mental illness, love, and home. She is the author of two small collections of poetry, Universal Themes (2014) and This Drowning Was A Baptism (2019). In addition to writing, Jasmine is also passionate about community building and resource infrastructure for artists in Philly. She currently works as a freelance editor and teaching artist, performing her work and facilitating writing and performance workshops. Additionally, she serves as slammaster for The Philly Pigeon Poetry Slam and a manuscript editor (Literary BAE) at Good Ground Publishing.