Jasmine L. Combs
Poet | Educator | Jawn
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 forthcoming in Painted Bride Quarterly. She has competed in poetry slams both locally and nationally, winning the grand slam championship at Philly's Grand Slam Finals 2015, College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) 2016, and was a semi-finalist at the 2015 National Poetry Slam. Jasmine’s work focuses on the personal as universal and 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).
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