A Tampa, Florida native, Krystal “Gypsy” Orellano Weldon is a spoken word poet, writer, and educator. She is known around the Tampa Bay community as an open mic artist, has been in features such as Pinot & Poetry: A Toast to Herstory and got her start at the USF Poets. Krystal is slowly transpiring as a creative nonfiction writer, being published in St. Petersburg College’s newspaper The Sandbox, Saint Leo University’s book the Sandhill Review and University of Westminster runner-up winner for the 2017 Mental Health Poetry competition. Currently, Krystal is working on a Novel called The Lover’s Passion Lounge