Lit Crawl LA

Iris De Anda is a writer, activist, and practitioner of the healing arts. A womyn of color of Mexican and Salvadorean descent. A native of Los Angeles she believes in the power of spoken word, poetry, storytelling, and dreams. She hosts The Writers Underground Open Mic every Third... Read More →

Rosie Alonso is a Poet with an MFA in Creative Writing from California State San Bernardino. She is a Poet Teacher with the 54-year-old not-for-profit, California Poets in the Schools, serving our K-12 youth. She is also a substitute teacher for Riverside Unified School District... Read More →

Yago S. Cura is an Adult Services Librarian at the Vernon branch of the Los Angeles Public Library in sunny South Central Los Angeles. He is a former N.Y.C. Teaching Fellow and A.L.A. Spectrum Scholar who also happens to publish the poetry, fiction, and prose of authors from las Américas... Read More →

Trini Rodriguez is the Seeking Freedom Co-founder and Executive Director of Tia Chucha's, a cultural bookstore in the San Fernando Valley that transforms community through ancestral knowledge. She is a Poet and writer, and a former bilingual educator, court interpreter, and newspaper... Read More →