Writer's Bio

Dahlia Aguilar is a Chicana poet and D.C. Arts and Humanities Fellow who has called Washington, D.C. home for three decades. Her work moves through memory’s rooms—where humor and ache share a cup of coffee, and ghosts of girlhood slip back in wearing her hat. A Macondo Writers Workshop alum, she has also held residencies with Under the Volcano, Elk River, and Gemini Ink. Her poems appear in Naugatuck River Review, Acentos Review, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Boundless, and Somos Xicanas, an award-winning anthology. Her manuscript Tidal Range was a finalist for Trio House Press’ Louise Bogan Poetry Award. A member of Tintas DC and Círculo de Poetas and Writers, Aguilar’s work moves between tenderness and defiance, interrogating power, memory, and survival with the intimacy of lived witness. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her teenage son, two dogs, and menopause.