Deidra White is a Lexington, Ky. native and poet. She received the 2022 Farquhar Poetry Award for "Meihua," the Patricia and William Stacy Endowed Fellowship for Distinguished Honors in English, the William Hugh Jansen Fiction Award in the Art of Storytelling/Folklore for "Woodstock," and the 2023 Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Nonfiction Award for her contemporary piece "DUCK." Her work engages the tradition of Affrilachian writing and explores the intricate dynamics of Black womanhood with an eye to past and present connections.