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About:

I'm just a black girl from Riverside, Ca who likes to write. I never know what to put on these things.

I'm a UC Irvine Literary Journalism graduate. I'm thinking about moving on to a grad school... but still exploring my options.

I try to write about things that interst me- culture, history, race, current events, travel

Experience shapes my writing, so I try to have as many adventures as possible.

Interests

Authors:	Toni Morrison Augusten Borroughs Loic Waquant Joan Dideon Katherine Boo Maya Angelou Susan Orlean
Books:	Way too many to list here but favs are Me Talk Pretty One Day The Color Purple and any Billy Collins poetry
Music:	John Mayer A Fine Frenzy Jack Johnson The Killers The Kooks David Ryan Harris Coldplay Feist
Films:	Princess Bride Girl Interrupted Fifth Element The Color Purple
Newspapers:	LA Times Washington Post BBC News
Magazines:	Harper's Vogue People New Yorker
Inspirations:	My mother my friends pop culture
Websites:	http://traileroflife.blogspot.com

youngwby's Published Writings (12 total)

Sick Day

When you’re seven years old, recess has to be one of the best things in your life. Running onto the blacktop, ...

Non-fiction

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Damaged Goods

I’m cleaning out my dead sister’s apartment today. No one ever thinks about what happens to their stuf...

Fiction

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Long Week

Monday: Someone asked me for directions to our favorite park. I could barely remember how to get there from Sunset.&...

Poetry

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Self Esteem Sold Separately

Doll commercials are starting to look more and mor...

Non-fiction

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Cancer

The Cancer started in her stomach of all places and spread to her liver and lungs They say 6 months, maybe Until...

Poetry

by youngwby

Missing Parts

I was born with missing parts unassuming vacuous voids wedged somewhere between my heart and the back of my tongue. ...

Poetry

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youngwby's Published Art (2 total)

Endless
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Salisbury
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Member Writing youngwby is a Fan of (5)

	The Truth About Things She was smart, funny, popular, beautiful: all of these things, and yet the truth of them was unbeknownst to her frien... Fiction	The Right Words I always thought words - The Right Words - were like fireflies that glow and buzz around you yet reaching out,... Poetry	Dear Kaleb Dear Kaleb, It's 2 am here again all the lights in the house are on and I didn't lock the door just in... Poetry
	On stolen shoes, riots and stopping war fo... I spent the first 18 years of my life in Lesotho, a small coffee-stain of a country on the African continent. So ... Non-fiction	april 2008 Sometimes you drive me home from parties or s... Fiction