like a solid to a shadow

*Author is the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, and was a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. *Author was named as one of the San Francisco Bay Area's Women to Watch in 2017 by KQED Arts.*Author has been profiled in Content Magazine, Mercury News, SF Gate, and Metro Silicon Valley*Author is a VONA/Voices and Kundiman Poetry Fellow*Author started Santa Clara County's first Youth Poet Laureate Program in 2020 as a chapter with Urban Word New York City as part of the National Youth Poet Laureate Initiative. *Author co-founded Sunday Jump, a long-running open mic space in Los Angeles's Historic Filipinotown. *Author co-hosts the podcast Pinaystrology, which discusses BIPOC pop culture, poems, and the planets.*Author is currently the Poetry Editor at Angel City Review.*Author is Assistant Professor of English at Skyline College where she directs the Honors Transfer Program and teaches in the CIPHER (Hip Hop) Learning Community*Author holds an MFA in Writing from CalArts and a BA in Ethnic Studies with Honors and a minor in Urban Studies & Planning from the University of California, San Diego.