Description: 'Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien' is an intimate poetic portrait about growing up undocumented in the United States. In this debut collection, Alan Pelaez Lopez urges readers to question their inheritance and acceptance of "settler rage, settler fear, and settler citizenship" to imagine and actualize alternate worlds.
Brief description: Alan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet, installation, and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México. They are the author of the art and poetry collection, 'Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien' (The Operating System, 2020), and the chapbook, '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," as well as published in Best New Poets, Best American Experimental Writing, POETRY, Puerto Del Sol, Everyday Feminism, & elsewhere. Pelaez Lopez has received fellowships and/or residencies from Submittable, the Museum of the African Diaspora, VONA/Voices, and UC Berkeley. They live in Oakland, CA & the internet (as @MigrantScribble).