Leticia Hernández-Linares

Leticia Hernández-Linares is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, and educator, and the author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press, 2015). Widely published, her work appears in newspapers, literary journals, and anthologies, some of which include: U.S. Latino Literature Today, Street Art San Francisco, Pilgrimage, Huizache, and This Bridge We Call Home. She has performed her poemsongs throughout the country and in El Salvador. Active in Central American Art and Literature, she participated in the 2014 Encuentro Poético: Salvadoran-American Poets at the Smithsonian. She is the founder of an artist collaborative, Amate: Women Painting Stories, and a CantoMundo alumna and organizing committee member. A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grantee, she lives, works, and writes in the Mission District, San Francisco—20 years strong. Visit her: joinleticia.com