Alyssa Matuchniak

Alyssa Matuchniak is a Southern Californian emerging on the poetry scene. A second-generation biracial American–the daughter of an Indian mother and an English-Polish father–she attends the Master’s in Teaching program at UCI and dreams of becoming “that kind of weird but cool” English teacher you hear about in stories. She’s not sure if she’s a poet yet, but she’s working on it. Her work deals primarily with questions on mixed-race identity, the space of the female body, and the meaning of home. Her poems have previously been published in Black Napkin Press.