Mimi Tempestt is a daughter of California. Her works are aimed at disrupting stereotypical narratives and the iconography of black and queer people in media representations. Her debut album, rough diamond, was released in 2019. she graduated from mills college with a ma in literature. Her debut Collection of poems, the monumental misremeberings, is published with Co - Conspirator press (2020). she is currently a doctoral student in the creative/critical phd in Literature at uc Santa Cruz.