Lyla Forest ButlerLyla Forest Butler is a fourteen-year-old lover of life, native of Brooklyn, and poet. She won the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Student Poetry Contest for three years in a row and has also received other awards for her writing, including a gol key in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the UNIS Student Haiku Contest in 2018. Lyla lives with her parents, her little brother, two French bulldogs and a cat. In her spare time, Lyla loves to do theater, play softball, karate, art, and music. Read More Read Less