About Teen Sequins

Our annual Teen Sequins feature is designed to present outstanding poetry from young writers, which in 2021 will showcase teenagers from ages 14 through 18. Each year (excluding 2019, when we took a break!) we feature one poet from each age category, and honor every poet who has submitted. Our goal is to show the world what we know: just exactly how vibrant, inventive, and moving teenage writers can be. Submissions open annually in the spring. 
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Teen Sequins Featured Poets

Age 13
Bella Komisarjevsky (2017)

Age 14

Daniel Blokh (2015)
Carrie Zhang (2016)
Sarah Feng (2017)
Ottavia Paluch (2018)
​Sarah Fathima Mohammed (2020) 
Emma Tian (2021)

Age 15

​Odelia Fried (2015)
Aidan Forster (2016)
Emily Tian (2017)
Taylor Fang (2018)
​Ashley Wang (2020)
​Sophia Liu (2021)

Age 16

Kathryn Hargett (2015)
Ben Read (2016)
Jacqueline He (2017)
Sophie Paquette (2018) 
Allison Lowe (2020)
​Alexander S. (2021) 

Age 17

Jordan Cutler-Tietjen (2015)
Margaret Zhang (2016)
Sabine Holzman (2017)
​Vidhima Shetty (2018)
Jaewon Chang (2020)
​Stella Lei (2021) 

Age 18

Michal Liebowitz (2015)
Talia Flores (2016)
Lucie Richter-Mahr (2017)
Morgan Levine (2018)
Heather Laurel Jensen (2020) 
Suraj Singareddy (2021)

Age 19

​Savannah Hampton (2015)
Brad Trumpfheller (2016)
Juniper Cruz (2017)
Annabelle Crowe (2018)