Renea Turnage is a queer poet writing toward connection in a world that often demands silence. Their work is shaped by lived experience, chosen family, and a refusal to make pain palatable.

At 22, Renea writes about queerness, survival, desire, dissociation, and love as a collective act. Their poems resist tidy narratives of healing, instead honoring rupture, persistence, and the radical tenderness of staying.

Their debut collection, My 29 Nevers, is a record of breaking—and of choosing to remain.