17 year old San Marcos resident named Hays Youth Poet Laureate

HAYS COUNTY

SHANNON WEST STAFF REPORTER

The Hays County Commissioners Court proclaimed Dorothy June Paddison, a 17-year-old San Marcos resident, as the esteemed 2024 Hays Youth Poet Laureate. The 2024 judge for the competition, Natalia Treviño, chose Paddison’s manuscript, To Be a Woman (Not a Girl), because it was “complex poetry reeling with interesting images, honesty and measured emotional texturing, and for her firm control of the form of her poems.”