Thiahera Nurse is a seventeen year old poet living in Hollis, Queens. She attends Townsend Harris High School where she is an active part of the student body. In her spare time, she likes to hang out with her friends, listen to music, read, and write. She has been a finalist for the Urban Word Slam, Knicks Poetry Slam, and the first statewide NYC Poet Laureate Slam. She is also a member of Urban Word NYC's youth board. Writing and performing is not just a hobby for her, it is the only way she knows how to process her life. Through her art, she only hopes to transform painful and ugly truth into something beautiful.