Sasha Pimentel Chacón

Sasha Pimentel Chacón, a Filipina American poet, was born in Manila and raised in Atlanta, Saudi Arabia and the NYC tri-state region. She is the author of Insides She Swallowed, a collection of poems about immigration, sexuality and hunger, and winner of the 2011 American Book Award. Her poems and essays have appeared in journals such as The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review and OCHO, and she is the recipient of a Philip Levine Fellowship and the Ernesto Trejo Prize.