Waters' father was a jazz musician and her uncle was the lead saxophonist with MFSB. At age eleven, she began writing poetry and was inducted into the Poetry Society of America when she was 14, the youngest person ever to receive that honor.
Waters' father was a jazz musician, and her uncle played lead saxophone in MFSB. At age eleven, she started writing poetry and joined the Poetry Society of America at fourteen; she was the youngest person ever to receive that honor.