Alan Pelaez Lopez

Alan Pelaez Lopez is an Afro-Indigenous poet and installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, Mexico. Their work attends to the realities of undocumented migrants in the United States, the Black condition in Latin America, and the transgender imagination. Their poetry collection, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien, was a finalist for the 2020 International Latino Book Award. They are an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis.
When Language Broke Open When Language Broke Open
When Language Broke Open

When Language Broke Open

An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent

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