Rhiannon McGavin, a resident of Los Angeles, graduated from UCLA in 2020 with a degree in English. She was the Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2016 and has had multiple recognitions for her writing. She has performed her poetry at the Hollywood Bowl, the Library of Congress, and on NPR. For the last five years, she worked as a polling clerk in her neighborhood for every city, state, and federal election. She volunteered as a District Leader for National Nurses United, working to urge California to pass universal healthcare. Since she was a child, she has volunteered for Alexandria House, a transitional shelter for women and children. Rhiannon will use her Mitchell year to finish her third poetry collection, Computer Room, which explores the emotional realities of technology. She finds that a “computer room” changes shape based on context. In the machine realm, it is a storage vault of servers. In historical terms, it might be the break room for the women mathematicians who were the first "computers". For many people of her generation, the computer room was a space designated for the desktop. As digital technology became more portable, that room disappeared alongside the boundary between private life and public connection. As her honors thesis, Computer Room was awarded the UCLA English Department’s Thompson Prize for Outstanding Thesis, the highest prize possible for undergraduate thesis research. Rhiannon studies Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin.