Kashvi Ramani
Kashvi Ramani is a writer, actress, songwriter, and singer from Northern Virginia. She has been writing songs, poetry, scripts, and other forms of writing for much of her life. She is the current Arlington (NoVA) Youth Poet Laureate, vice president of the poetry club, and editor of the creative writing magazine at her school. Last year, she was awarded the prestigious YoungArts in Theater and Writing for Spoken Word Poetry. In the near past, she has been a member of the Virginia Youth Poet in Community, the DC Slam youth poetry team, and a professional improv teen company. In second grade, she won her first poetry competition, going on to win $5K for her elementary school after writing a rap song in fourth grade, and has won awards for her memoirs, scripts, and poetry at the Scholastic Writing Awards.