MK Chavez is a writer and a champion of public health. She writes about the world as it presents itself to her, broken and achingly luminous.
She is the author of Virgin Eyes (Zeitgeist Press). Mothermorphosis will be released in March 2016 followed by her full-length collection Dear Animal, which will be available in the fall.
Chavez is co-founder/co-curator of the Berkeley-based monthly reading series Lyrics & Dirges, and the co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She believes in literary confrontation and its capacity to an obliterate all forms of oppression.
Recent and upcoming work can be found inEast Bay Review, Rivet and Eleven Eleven.