Jasmine L. Combs is a writer, editor, and teaching artist from Philadelphia. She is the author of two poetry collections, Universal Themes (2014) and This Drowning Was A Baptism (2019). Her work has also been published in literary journals such as Apiary, Vagabond City Lit, Vinyl Poetry, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Prolit Magazine. Jasmine was the 2015 Philly Pigeon Grand Slam Champion and won the 2016 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational. Her work focuses on the intersecting relationships between Blackness, womanhood, mental illness, family, love, and home.