Jasmine L. Combs is a writer, editor, and teaching artist from Philadelphia. Her work focuses on the intersecting relationships between Blackness, womanhood, mental illness, family, love, and home. In addition to reading and teaching poetry across the country, Jasmine is a member of The Philly Pigeon Poetry Collective and edits manuscripts for Literary BAE.
Jasmine studied creative writing at The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts and received her BA in English from Temple University in 2016. During college she began competing in poetry slams and won the 2015 Philly Pigeon Grand Slam Championship and the 2016 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI). She was also a semi-finalist at the 2015 National Poetry Slam.
Jasmine has worked in collaboration with The Coloreds Girl Museum, Philadelphia Art Museum, AAMP, Delaware Contemporary, and The Paul Robeson House. She has also been published in literary magazines such as Apiary, Vagabond City Lit, Vinyl Poetry, and Painted Bride Quarterly. Jasmine is a Watering Hole fellow, VONA alumni, and a recipient of the 2021 Leeway Transformation Award. She has published two poetry chapbooks; Universal Themes (2014) and This Drowning Was A Baptism (2019).
Jasmine studied creative writing at The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts and received her BA in English from Temple University in 2016. During college she began competing in poetry slams and won the 2015 Philly Pigeon Grand Slam Championship and the 2016 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI). She was also a semi-finalist at the 2015 National Poetry Slam.
Jasmine has worked in collaboration with The Coloreds Girl Museum, Philadelphia Art Museum, AAMP, Delaware Contemporary, and The Paul Robeson House. She has also been published in literary magazines such as Apiary, Vagabond City Lit, Vinyl Poetry, and Painted Bride Quarterly. Jasmine is a Watering Hole fellow, VONA alumni, and a recipient of the 2021 Leeway Transformation Award. She has published two poetry chapbooks; Universal Themes (2014) and This Drowning Was A Baptism (2019).
