Alicia Viguer

Alicia grew up in Valencia, Spain, surrounded by light, color and the sea. Raised in a bilingual household of Castilian and Valencian, she learned English as an adult, began writing in English in 2017 and that same year she was the winner of the 2017 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Book Contest with her book Holding a Hummingbird. She has been a featured poet at numerous venues within the greater LA. Her work has been published in Colorado Boulevard, Lummox Anthologies, Altadena Poetry Review, ZZyZx Intersections, Panoplyzine, and Spectrum Publications, among others. Her chapbook Out of the Womb of the Sea was recently published by Four Feather Press. She’s a 2019 and 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee.