Tomi Simmons, a poet, spoken-word artist, and 200 hour yoga trained teacher, shares her personal experience with healing from trauma through her poetry. Tomi has a passion for helping her community and is a nonprofit development professional. She was McPherson College’s first poet laureate in 2019 and served as the president of the writing club where she helped publish creative literary journals, and led virtual and on-campus writing workshops. Simmons has been a featured artist at the Las Vegas Book Festival and at poetry shows in Las Vegas, Phoenix, and California. Her work has been published in McPherson College’s literary journal Inscribe and The Petite Hound Press Issue 42.

Today she hosts and organizes Orange County’s only monthly poetry slam, the OC Poetry Slam. 

Tomi can be found on Instagram @tsimmswrites and her website tomisimmonspoetry.com.