Bio

Brenda Delfino (she/her) is a poet, writer, editor and educator based in Riverside, CA. She is passionate about community coalition and creativity for self-determination and healing. Brenda received an MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from University of California, Riverside (UCR). She is a VONA and Along the Chaparral Fellow. Her works have appeared in World Literature Today, Los Angeles Review of Books, Pacific Review, Spectrum Magazine, La Libreta and elsewhere. She has organized and hosted numerous community readings and events. She is currently working on a full length manuscript of poems and is a poetry editor at Black Light Arts Collective and Break Bread. She is Poet B in the podcast Baby Poet.