Bianca Amira Zanella (she/they) is a queer Vermont-based performance poet, multidisciplinary artist, and poetic medicine healer. Zanella serves the community using poetry as a path to wholeness as The Paper Poet, designing experiences to decrease hardship while increasing heartship. Her poems have appeared in Writing by Heart, The Artful Mind, and The Mountain Troubadour. She received the Corrine Eastman Davis Memorial Award, Arthur Wallace Peach Memorial Award, and is the former President of the Poetry Society of Vermont. Zanella’s experimental poem-films, interactive sculptural poems, and poem-paintings have been on exhibit with PoemCity Montpelier, Merwin Gallery, SPACE Pop Up Gallery, and Stone Valley Arts.