Rachelle Linda Escamilla lives inland from the Monterey Bay, California. Her first book, Imaginary Animal (Willow Books) won some prizes and has been nominated for others, but mostly the book is about race, labor and assimilation filtered through found text and re-appropriation of language generated from specific Google searches. She has an MFA from Pitt and a BA from San Jose State where she founded the Poets and Writers Coalition. From 2012-2014 she lived in Guangzhou where she co-founded Sun Yat-sen University's English-language Center for Creative Writing, curated lectures with the United States Consulate of Guangzhou and wrote for South China's answer to Vogue: In The Red. She has recently taken over as host of the 45 year long poetry radio show: Out of Our Minds on KKUP Cupertino. Contact Rachelle: www.poetita.com