04/16/2026
We’re 4 days away from BackStory, and we are thrilled to have the wonderful gracing our stage this Sunday! Tickets avail now at the link below✨
Benin Lemus (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based poet, librarian and educator. Her 2022 debut poetry collection, Dreaming in Mourning, was published by World Stage Press. She was an Inaugural Workshop Fellow with Obsidian Magazine’s O|Sessions: Black Listening—A Performance Master Class, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and received Honorable Mention in the 2022 Furious Flower Poetry Center’s annual competition. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Callaloo, Consequence and TORCH Literary Arts Magazine, among others. In 2024, Benin served as the poetry judge for AWP’s Intro Journals Project. She teaches poetry in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/backstory-stand-by-me-in-person-2