MT Vallarta

MT Vallarta is a poet and assistant professor of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Their forthcoming poetry collection, What You Refuse to Remember, won Small Harbor Publishing’s 2022 Laureate Prize. A Kundiman and Roots. Wounds. Words. fellow, their work is published and forthcoming in Shō, Madwomen in the Attic, Nat. Brut, Apogee Journal, and others. They received their PhD in ethnic studies from the University of California, Riverside.