Chelsea Willams is an emerging poet, screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker from Chicago, IL. As a multidisciplinary artist, she believes the purpose of art and storytelling is to simultaneously reflect what the world is and to create the world. Her poems have been published in issues of the winter 2018 High Shelf Press and the Anthology In Absentia: Poems for the Pandemic. Her poem “After Sam Cooke” was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize. Chelsea received her BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
I know I make you uncomfortable Being gender fluid and blind Is a triple whammy It messes up your head. All those years I wasted because i despaired that I could not be like you Wedding sangeets, showy procreations, baby shower(s) with pink or blue balloons, Cheerful diwali parties, gender war jokes Birthday cakes designed […]
