It’s been a big week for 23-year-old US poet and advocate Amanda Gorman. A book of her poem, “The Hill We Climb”, which she read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January, was released, rocketing straight to the top spot on The New York Times bestseller list. And she did a sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey for an Apple TV special.
But some would argue an even bigger coup is appearing on the May cover of US Vogue, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, who has also shot Princess Diana and Kate Moss.
Overnight, Los Angeles-based Gorman shared the “unveiling” of her cover in an Instagram video with her mother, Joan Wicks, whose reaction via Zoom was priceless. “That’s my daughter! That’s my daughter on Vogue!” Wicks…