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Yasmine Bolden is a poet, editor, educator, and descendant of Black/Nahiłií women who heard the earth speaking to them through their gardens and lovingly spoke back. Who I Love Marks Time In My Bones, Yasmine's debut poetry chapbook tracing queer love to its headwaters and exploring what the sacred and trans act of Sankofa can heal in a family of two-headed women, selkies, tricksters, church gurls, and survivors, won Garden Party Collective's 2026 Chapbook Contest and was a finalist for Purple Ink Press' Toni Morrison & Beloved Prize. 

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Yasmine was selected as an inaugural I, Too Am the Dream Prize in Poetry winner by The Hate U Give author Angie Thomas, a 2026 West Trade Review Poetry Prize finalist, and the 2023 Johns Hopkins University Arts & Innovation Rising Star Awardee. The Best New Poets, Pushcart Prize, and Monarch Queer Literary Awards nominee's writing and research is planted or forthcoming in ONLY POEMS' Best New Poems, The National Library of Medicine, Seventh Wave, Sundress Academy for the Arts' Best of the Net Anthology, and Pleiades Magazine, among other literary garden plots. 

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They're co-founder and co-facilitator of ​Linked Hearts, a new poetry reading series co-founded by them and Ruby Rogers to transnationally exploring Queer, Indigenous, and diasporic poetics in service of grassroots mutual aid. 

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