The fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good has sparked nationwide outrage, fuelling a heated debate regarding authoritative accountability and the controversial raids of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On January 7, 2026, the mother of three was shot and killed by an ICE agent, whose identity was later revealed as Jonathan Ross. Amid the national attention, a different part of Renee’s story is breaking through the noise: the work she left behind, especially her award-winning poem.
Renee Nicole Good’s award-winning poem resurfaces after her death
On her now-private Instagram account, Renee Nicole Good described herself as a “Poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis, MN.” Before the chaos, she was an artist rooted in writing, music, and family.
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