Aerik Francis

Aerik Francis is a Queer Black and Latinx poet and teaching artist based in Denver, Colorado. They are serving as poet laureate of Adams County, Colorado for 2025 to 2027. They have published three poetry chapbooks, including MISEDUCATION, which won the 2022 New Delta Review Chapbook Contest. Their full-length manuscript, AMERICAN POLYTYCHS, has earned multiple finalist honors. Francis has been a contributor to So to Speak, which published their poem 'Lying to Live' in summer 2021.