photo taken by stefa marin alarcon
Alexis Aceves Garcia plays w/ their inner child in a pool of ancestral memory. They use archival photographs and linocut printmaking alongside their writing as a container for their messy/horny becoming. A few questions their work asks include: Who are they to tell their family’s story? How does experiencing a second puberty collapse time? What is the connection between second puberty and their inner child? And how is the act of longing a technology of time travel?
Their poems have been featured on 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. Aceves Garcia is an incoming 3rd year in the MFA in Writing Program at UCSD where they are working on a hybrid poetry collection. Follow them on Instagram @loveloaf_.
