Raiya Shaw is an undergraduate student at the University of Central Florida double majoring in Sociology and English, Creative Writing with a certificate in service-learning. She has interned for the Florida Senate, The Florida Review, and the FL LEADS Project, and has been published in Blue Marble Review, Of Poets & Poetry, FLARE Magazine, and IMPRINT Magazine, among others. When she isn't reading or writing articles, she loves writing poetry, solving Sudoku puzzles, and knitting.