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Marie Anne Arreola

Marie Anne Arreola is a bilingual poet and cultural editor whose work dissolves boundaries between language, form, and identity. Her creative practice explores digital femininity, altered states, memory, and identity through a poetic lens shaped by both the internet and introspective voices. Her work has appeared internationally in Torrey House Press, Meniscus Literary Journal, San Diego Poetry Annual, WILDSOUND International Poetry Festival, and elsewhere. She is a two-time finalist for the Francisco Ruiz Udiel Latin American Poetry Prize from Valparaíso Ediciones and a 2024 recipient of the Young Poets Scholarship from the Gutiérrez Lozano Foundation.

My angels, tied, like a kite

I This morning, I showered like it mattered. I rubbed shea butter into my skin like I was polishing something I might someday become. The scent stayed on my fingers like a ghost that had made peace with its haunting. …

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