poetry by katarina xóchitl vargas
Mulberry Literary Fresh Voices Award First Place Winner

Fecund; Flashes of Death

Katarina Xóchitl Vargas (she/her) is an emerging, Xicana poet, originally from Mexico. After her family moved to the U.S, she began composing poems to process alienation. A dual citizen of the U.S and Mexico, today she writes resistance poetry and lives on occupied Tsenacommacah territory where she is working on her first chapbook. Xóchitl’s poems first appeared in Somos en escrito: The Latino Literary Online Magazine, Cloud Women's Quarterly Journal, The Acentos Review and Penumbra. Follow her on Instagram @Cantos_de_Xochitl