Carlito Espudo
UC San Diego
San Diego Fellow in Literature
San Diego
Carlito Espudo is a queer, genderfunky Chicanx writer, born and raised in Palm Springs, California. He works in hybrid forms with a focus in fragmentation, and focuses on the themes of family, gender, and memory through a multicultural lens. You can find him earning his MFA at UC San Diego as the San Diego Fellow and online as @ALittleManly. Currently, Espudo is the Poetry Editor at Name and None Magazine, and his debut chapbook, boy if was the winner of the 2019 OutWrite Chapbook Competition and published by Neon Hemlock Press.