ABOUT

Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of the poetry chapbook Iconistas! Out now on Lit Kit Collective and available here. She’s the author of the debut poetry collection the daughterland (El Martillo Press, 2023), the short story collection Graft (Tolsun Books in 2022), the poetry chapbook Burn Scars (Lit Kit Collective 2021).  Her short story collection Chicana Noir Stories will be published by El Martillo Press in October 2024.

She's the co-editor of the forthcoming Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Community in California’s Fire Country coming June 24, 2025 (AK Press https://www.akpress.org/red-flag-warning.html). 

Graft was a recommended read at Small Press Distribution November, 2022; She’s the recipient of Chapman University’s MFA in Creative Writing’s Non-Tuition Fellowship.