Bio: Angie Trudell Vasquez is a Mexican-American writer and holds an MFA in poetry from the
Institute of American Indian Arts. Finishing Line Press published her third collection of poetry, In
Light, Always Light, in 2019, and recently accepted her fourth collection, My People Redux, for
publication. Her poems have appeared in the Yellow Medicine Review, The Slow Down, the
Raven Chronicles, The Rumpus, on the Poetry Foundation’s website, and elsewhere. She is the
current poet laureate of Madison, Wisconsin and the first Latina to hold the position. She
recently co-edited a poetry anthology entitled, Through This Door – Wisconsin in Poems, with
current Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Margaret Rozga, and released it through her small press, Art
Night Books, in November 2020. With poet Millissa Kingbird, she co-edited the Spring 2019
issue of the journal the Yellow Medicine Review. angietrudellvasquez.com
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