Bio
Marlee Alcina is a Black, queer multidisciplinary artist with a special focus on writing and performance. Her work explores the dreamscape, grief and love’s interconnectedness, and seeks to articulate why the political is always personal. Her writing also aims to subvert the idea that the genre of poetry and lyric must function separately from that of nonfiction. She believes writing is at its most rich and compelling when poetry is integrated and understood as the only language that conveys certain ideas and experiences.
Marlee Alcina has an MFA in Narrative Nonfiction from the University of Georgia. She is the author of “Mommy Issues: Poems for the Fragile, Queer Heart.” Their writing has also appeared in Issues of Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art journal, Solstice Literary Magazine, Black Joy Unbound: An Anthology published by BLF Press, and more. She has also performed with Bread and Puppet Theater and Sacred Circle Theatre Company.