Clarissa AdkinsClarissa Adkins lives in Richmond, Virginia and earned degrees from James Madison University and Lesley University. As a high school English teacher, she co-coordinates her school's Poetry Out Loud program and is a research member of Virginia Commonwalth University's Culturally Responsive Teaching consortium. Clarissa's published in The Pinch, Whurk Magazine, River City Poets' anthology: Lingering in the Margins, Passengers Journal, and more. She earned a Best of the Net nomination from Parentheses International Literary Arts Journal and was a finalist for the 17th Annual Erskine J. Poetry Prize. She reads for Sugar House Review. Read More Read Less