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Nikolai Garcia
December 1, 2021 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
$4
Nikolai Garcia is all-city L.A. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles; graduated from Birmingham High School in The Valley; went to East L.A. College (where he studied Journalism and Creative Writing under Jean Stapleton and Carol Lem, respectively); spent 12 years working in Skid Row; currently works in East Hollywood, and has been sleeping in Compton for the last 15 years.
He has been published in the anthologies, The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles, (Tia Chucha Press, 2016), & Extreme: An Anthology for Social and Environmental Justice, (Vagabond Books, 2018), and in various literary journals.
He is a founding member of the Coleman Collective and is Assistant Editor for Dryland, a literary arts journal based in South Central.