Devon Malia Deming has been writing poetry since she was a young girl. One of her first published poems "The Kiss" was written about her horse when she was 12 years old. She writes about love, learning, and the ways in which we discover our truest selves. A graduate of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), in English, and Women's and LGBTQ+ Studies, she is a proud member of the Academy of American Poets.