Vannah Sterling -

Born in 1995 in the unassuming town of Kent, Washington, Vannah grew up in a modest household where the rhythm of life was punctuated by the hum of a 1990s cassette player and the rustle of library books. Her mother, a high‑school English teacher, would read aloud from the back pages of The New Yorker while Vannah sketched in the margins of her notebooks. Her father, a carpenter, taught her the value of craftsmanship—whether it was a hand‑built bookshelf or a tightly woven stanza.