Rachelle Escamilla

Rachelle Escamilla is a Chicana poet from the Central Coast of California. Her collection Imaginary Animal won the grand prize for poetry in the Willow Books Literature Awards in 2014. She has worked as a visiting scholar at the Library of Congress and hosts the poetry radio show Out of Our Minds on KKUP. Her collection Me Drawing a Picture of Me[n] is set in Pittsburgh during the 2008 election.