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Traci Neal    

Award-Winning Poet & Christian Writer

Traci Neal lives in Columbia, SC as a performing poet and professional writer. She is featured in The New York Times, Storyberries, InspireMore, Sheen Magazine, and other media publications.

She is the 2022 third-place poetry winner in the Global Arts and Poetry Competition for the UK Thalassemia Society, the 2022 poetry winner of Empowering Justice Foundation poetry contest, the 2022 third-place state winner of the SCCDA Poetry and Art Contest, and the 2021 second-place winner of the virtual poetry slam "Taking It Global" in Toronto, Canada.

Speech Topics

Rejection

I share my story of never fitting in throughout my life and how poetry helps me to continue to move forward.

Living in Beijing, China

I share my story about learning the value of getting out of one's comfort zone. I taught English in China for six months after undergrad, but it helped me prepare for my poetry business later on.

Letter to the editor in New York Times

I share my story about my experiences with rejection and how poetry became my outlet to deal with the pain. It took my three times before I got in the New York Times.

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