NitaJade is an Affrilachian Poet and a self-proclaimed weirdo hailing from Asheville, North Carolina. They earned their BA in African and African-American Studies from Berea College and their MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Kentucky. They insist that their late O.G. Queen's sweet potato pie epitomizes love, and they aspire to embody the aesthetics of sloths and narwhals (slarwhals, if you please). They laugh loudly and stubbornly.