aboutAward-winning, bilingual, interdisciplinary writer, performer, and social engagement artist based in the Mission District of San Francisco.
Leticia Hernández-Linares is the author of the poetry collection Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press, 2015) and the children’s book Alejandria Fights Back! ¡La lucha de Alejandria! (Feminist Press, 2021).
Widely published, her poetry, essays, & translations have appeared in over forty publications, including anthologies such as Maestrapeace, San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural and Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. She has created numerous interdisciplinary performances and art installation projects and has presented her poemsongs throughout the country and in El Salvador. A two-time San Francisco Library Laureate and three time finalist for S.F. Poet Laureate, she received the Community Appreciation Teyolía Award from the International Flor y Canto Poetry Festival in 2023.
“She brilliantly turns the invisible into verse, that we might sing ourselves back into our bodies, our names, our history.”
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