2022 Undergraduate Poetry Contest Winners

Callie Matthews is a freshman at Mississippi State University majoring in psychology and minoring in creative writing. She is a proud resident of the Magnolia State, and its natural beauty influences her poetry a great deal. She enjoys many aspects of life, such as tacos and eighties' synth music, and believes everything is a story worth telling.

Amari Cooper is a biological sciences and social work double major at MSU. Over the summer and long breaks, she works at Madison Oak Preschool as an assistant teacher and recently became a volunteer for the Red Cross. She started writing when she was 14 and has been doing it ever since.

Charisma Bosarge is a twenty years old and from Gulfport, MS. She moved to Mississippi State to study psychology and biology and wants to use her degree to go into genetic counseling. On the side, she enjoys digital art, painting, and most of all writing. She has also published a kid's book and is working on publishing a novel soon! She would like to thank Mississippi State University for giving her this opportunity because it pushed her out of her comfort zone into something new, poetry.