Angela Peñaredondo is the author of All Things Lose Thousands of Times (Inlandia Institute, 2016), winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize and the chapbook, Maroon (Jamii Publications). Born in Iloilo City, Philippines, she/siya is a Pilipinx/Pin@y poet and artist now living in Southern California, sometimes identifying as "a usual ghost, comet or part-time animal." Her work has appeared in The Margins, Drunken Boat, Four Way Review, Cream City Review, Southern Humanities Review among other journals. Peñaredondo is a VONA/Voices of our Nations Art fellow, a recipient of a University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grant, Gluck Program of the Arts Fellowship, Naropa University's Zora Neal Hurston Award, Squaw Valley Writers Fellowship and Fishtrap Fellowship.