Canela

Canela is a 2-Spirit Indigenous artist who grew up in the heart of Oaxacalifornia. They are currently working on a memoir-in-essays, and they recently completed their first collection of poetry, titled Red Skin, White Designer Bag. They were selected as a 2024 Periplus Fellow by the PERIPLUS Collective, a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color, and as a 2024 Tin House Scholar for the 2024 Tin House Summer Workshop. Their writing has also received support from the Hudson Valley Writers Center and Abode Press.