Amanda Gorman

Overview

Amanda Gorman born Los Angeles, California March 7, 1998. Gorman is an American poet and activist whose work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book “The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough” in 2015. She rose to fame in 2021 for writing and delivering her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of Joe Biden.

Quotations

“I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.”