Niveah Glover
It's more than words.
About Niveah Glover
Niveah Glover is a Black American poet, writer, and advocate from Jacksonville, Florida. With a vibrant imagination, a strong sense of community, and a deep examination of the world around her, she creates works that are expressive, thought-provoking, and deeply personal.
Her commitment to the written and spoken word is reflected in a wide range of honors and endeavors. Among them are being named the 2024 National Poetry Out Loud Champion, her selection to the 2024 U.S. Presidential Scholar cohort, her recognition as the 2018 Jacksonville Youth Poet Laureate, inclusion in Folio Weekly’s 2019 “18 under 18” list, her achievement as a 2022 YoungArts Writing Winner, and her two-time victory in Poetry Out Loud’s Florida state competition. She has also been featured in the Florida Theatre’s Untold Stories Series, named a Princeton Playwriting Finalist, and co-created and co-curated the gallery The Freedom Ride in collaboration with The Yellow House.
In the summer of 2025, Niveah reached several new milestones: her first full-length play, Callas, premiered at JAMS Black Box Theater to rave reviews; she presented a commissioned five-minute work at Horizon Theatre’s New South Young Playwrights Festival; and she made her international debut at the Poetry by Heart Festival in London, England. Her current projects include the continued development of a new full-length play, slated for preview in summer 2026, as well as her forthcoming play collection, "Deep-Fried Sunsets".
Welcome to where stories live
Over the last eight years, the written word has overtaken my life. Infecting me with all the intricate words and sounds that tell beautiful stories that otherwise would be suppressed. Just like many other amazing artists, there is fire inside of me, the flames have been fanned and stroked by not just poetry but all the other human beings who enjoy the intimately harsh love-affair that comes with engaging with the written word–like you. For everyone who enters here, know this place is imperfect, rhythmic, full, trying, beautiful, stretched, hard, loving, real; me. So come engage as you because I will be here as me, and let us journey through the bitter, warm, rocky, familiar, complex thing that is poetics.