The Poetry Project

Jayden A. McClam

Jayden A. McClam stands outside in the sun in front of a white wall, wearing a blue headscarf, with their head tilted slightly to the side.

Jayden A. McClam (they/them) is a multi-medium writer and healer from Buffalo, New York. They are a senior at Howard University where they major in Psychology and minor in Africana Studies and English. Jayden’s work explores themes of ancestral healing and Black sapphic identity as a sacred practice of re/claiming the self. They were named runner-up for the 2021 May Miller Creative Writing Award; semifinalist for the 2022 Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award; and their poetry is featured in The Amistad. Find them gazing at the moon, or on instagram @jaydenamira.