Siaara Freeman is from Cleveland Ohio, where she is the current Lake Erie Siren. A two time nominee for the pushcart prize, a finalist for the 2017 button poetry chapbook competition, a 2017 bettering American poet and Best Of The Net Poet, a 2018 winter tangerine chapbook fellow and a 2018 Poetry Foundation incubator fellow. Siaara is a four year PinkDoor Fellow & 2018 Pinkdoor Faculty member. She is a teaching artist for Center For Arts Inspired Learning. She is the co-founder of Outsiders Queer Midwest Writers Retreat. She is currently working on three manuscripts at the same time, which is also how she reads book, three at once. In her spare time she is growing her afro so tall God mistakes it for a microphone and tries to speak through her.