Refusal

Penda Mbaye Z Smith is a writer/educator/ scientist who is invested in the ways Black women sustain themselves through eroticism. She is a Watering Hole fellow, forthcoming Cave Canem, and Pink Door Fellow, and has work featured in Rattle Magazine, Interim Poetics, Decomp Magazine, and Voicemail Poems. She is a 2nd year MFA candidate at Louisiana State University and loves coffee.