Zinnia Bynum is a writer based in Greensboro, NC. She is a contributing editor for Bull City Press. She graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a minor in poetry and received a Phillips Travel Scholarship to research spoken word poetry in Europe. Her work focuses on questions of identity and embodiment through the lens of being Black, queer, and southern.

POETRY

Attempt to Explain How Dysphoria Feels Using Ripley’s Believe It or Not

By ZINNIA BYNUM

My eyes would trace / each scale.