Tramaine Suubi

Tramaine Suubi (she/they) was born in Kampala and speaks four languages. She has lived in twelve neighborhoods throughout three countries. She earned a B.A. in Philosophy and French, and she is currently an M.F.A. candidate at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. While there, she has been awarded the James Patterson Scholarship and the MFA Summer Fellowship. She is passionate about all things water, queer black liberation theology, and transformative justice. She is also an alumnus of the Tin House Summer Workshop and is represented by CAA. Their poems live in Protest Through Poetry, Kiwi Collective Magazine, Plantin Magazine, and other spaces.