A Token
by: MT Vallarta
MT Vallarta (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, disabled, Filipinx poet and Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Their debut poetry collection, What You Refuse to Remember, won the 2022 Laureate Prize from Small Harbor Publishing. They have received fellowships from Lambda Literary, Kundíman, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, and others. Their scholarship and creative writing can be found in Amerasia Journal, The Asian American Literary Review, Shō, Nat. Brut, Apogee, and elsewhere. Find them at mtvallarta.com and IG: @__melkteaa.