Amanda Gorman

About Amanda Gorman

Poet whose work has covered topics as diverse as feminism and African culture. She achieved notoriety after reading her poetry "The Hill We Climb" at US President Joe Biden's inauguration in January 2021. She was the youngest poet to ever read at a presidential inauguration when she was 22 years old.

Amanda Gorman before fame

She went to New Roads School, a private school in Santa Monica, California, from kindergarten to 12th grade. She attended Harvard University and majored in sociology.

Achievement of Amanda Gorman

In 2015, she released The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, her debut collection of poems. In 2017, she was named the United States' first National Youth Poet Laureate. Her Twitter account, @TheAmandaGorman, has over 1.5 million followers.

Amanda Gorman family life

Joan Wicks, a teacher, was her mother when she was growing up. Gabrielle, her twin sister, is one of her two siblings.

Associations of Amanda Gorman

Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first Black, first female, and first Asian American vice president in US history, and her reading at the 2021 presidential inauguration came at a historic time.

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