Rachelle Cruz

Rachelle Cruz is a Filipina American poet from Hayward, California. She won the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize and a 2018 American Book Award. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in Strange Horizons, the San Francisco Chronicle, As/Us ,, and MĀNOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Cruz wrote about reimagining the creative writing workshop in Poets & Writers Magazine.

She teaches at University of California, Riverside. In 2019, she was Inlandia Literary Laureate.

Works Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading, Discussing, and Creating Comics (Cognella, 2020) God’s Will for Monsters (Inlandia, 2017) Self-Portrait as Rumor and Blood (Dancing Girl Press, 2012)