BIO

Xalli (shawl-lee) is a young poet from and based out of occupied Tovaangar. She's been storytelling since she could talk and writing since she could write, and began her practice in a formal sense when studying creative writing at California School of the Arts – San Gabriel Valley. She is constantly working to embody the poet of witness, viewing her writing as one small way to love, community-build, and stand in solidarity with her community everywhere-- the free people of the world.

He has published with Drifter Zine, Death Rattle Literary, Transmuted, Verve Poetry Press, LBRNTH, and Polyphony Lit among others, and loves to create zines when he can. In high school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Sugar Pine Literary and worked as an Executive Editor and Junior Board member for Polyphony Lit. Currently, she edits for FEM Newsmagazine, and is attending UCLA to pursue a BA in Philosophy with the desire to continue writing & publishing poetry and teach high school English.

In his daily life, Xalli puts his love in many different places, but especially enjoys trying to catch glimpses of her neighborhood coyotes, reading, playing videogames with her girlfriend, going to punk & HxC shows, and organizing.