Yvanna Vien Tica

Yvanna Vien Tica is a Filipina writer with a hearing impairment who grew up in Manila and a suburb near Chicago. A high school senior, her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Poet Lore, and Salt Hill, among others, and has been performed virtually in a COP26 event. She reads for Muzzle Magazine and tweets @yvannavien. In her spare time, she can be found thanking God for another day.