Christopher Soto is a poet based in Los Angeles. In 2016, he published the chapbook Sad Girl Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press) and co-founded the Undocupoets Campaign with Javier Zamora and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Poets & Writers honored Soto and the Undocupoets with the “Barnes & Nobles Writer for Writers Award.” In 2018, he published Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books), the first major literary anthology for Queer Poets of Color in the U.S. Currently he works with the Ethnic Studies Research Centers at UCLA and sits on the Board of Directors for Lambda Literary.
Reading(s) will be streamed via the Creative Writing Program's YouTube Channel.