Rachelle Cruz

Rachelle Cruz is the author of God's Will for Monsters (Inlandia, 2017), which won an American Book Award in 2018 and the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize. She co-edited Kuwento: Lost Things, an anthology of Philippine Myths (Carayan Press, 2015) with Lis P. Sipin-Gabon. Her most recent book, Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading, Discussing and Creating Comics, was published in fall 2018. She was appointed the 2018-2020 Inlandia Literary Laureate during which she founded a summer writing program for young people, Poetry is Power, among other community projects. She lives and writes in Southern California.