photo taken by stefa marin alarcon at The Outpost Residency
Alexis Aceves Garcia is a trans writer, visual artist, and educator from San Diego, CA, currently living and longing in Queens, NY.
Their creative practice combines linocut prints, letterpress glitches, and archival scans with poetic form to create new layers of texture, meaning-making, multiplicity, and play. These gestures build a world where their inner child and teen can coexist outside of linear time without shame or guilt, in full curiosity and spirit.
A few questions their work asks include: Where are the places of refusal in a country that seeks to disembody us? What does “safety” look like in/against the colonial and patriarchal imaginary?
Their poems have been featured in The Hopkins Review, Poets.org, The Slowdown, beestung, rivulet, The Hennepin Review, The Best of the Net Anthology 2022, Apogee Journal, and The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNext. Their poem “ODE TO TRANS BOXING CLASS” was awarded the 2020 Peach Bronze in Poetry by guest judge Alok Vaid-Menon and published in Peach Mag. Their latest obsessions include letterpress and risograph printing, escaping linear time, and reconstructing safety during the collapse of the American empire. Follow them on Instagram @loveloaf_.
