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Young Chicago Authors, where Woods gained experience, founded the Louder Than A Bomb poetry festival. She’s now their Associate Artistic Director, teaching in schools and “giving young people that chance to tell their own stories, in their own words.”

She recently co-edited The Breakbeat Poets: Black Girl Magic, which she describes as “an anthology of poems by black women inspired by hip-hop”.