Alan Pelaez Lopez, Ph.D., is an AfroIndigenous poet,

installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México.

Their work attends to the quotidian realities of undocumented

migrants in the United States, the Black condition

in Latin America, and the intimate kinship units that

trans and nonbinary people build in the face of violence.

Their debut visual poetry collection, Intergalactic

Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating

System, 2020), was a finalist for the 2020 International

Latino Book Award. They are also the author of the

chapbook to love and mourn in the age of displacement

(Nomadic Press, 2020). Alan’s writing can be found in

Teen Vogue, Refinery29, The Andy Warhol Museum,

Poetry, Catapult, the Georgia Review, and more.

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