Author Biography
Mateo Acuña is a trans, gay Peruvian-American poet and writer who splits his time between Auburn and Seattle, where he is an Art and English student at the University of Washington. In 2023, he was the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate and currently serves as the Auburn Poet Laureate. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Gay & Lesbian Review, the Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery, the EchoX, The Madrona Project, and more. He is the librettist of the twenty-minute chamber opera Blood Dawn of the Inti Sun, composed by Mina Pariseau. His first book, a poetry chapbook published in 2024, is Dear Spanish, which explores the languages of identity, heritage, and belonging.
Region
North Puget Sound