Alan Pelaez Lopez

Alan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet and installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México. They are the author of Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien (The Operating System, 2020) and To Love and Mourn in the Age of Displacement (Nomadic Press, 2020). Their poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and “Best of the Net” and selected to appear in Best New Poets 2019 and Best American Experimental Writing 2020. Pelaez Lopez has received fellowships and/or residencies from Submittable, the Museum of the African Diaspora, VONA/Voices, and the University of California, Berkeley. They live in Oakland, California.