Angelina Sáenz is an award-winning educator and poet, the author of Maestra (FlowerSong Press, 2024), a collection focusing on L.A. barrio children, parents and teachers struggling to navigate an impaired education system. Her first collection, Edgecliff (FlowerSong Press, 2021) is, in the words of Erick Galindo, "an astounding portrait of a working mom's life told with jaw dropping honesty ..." Sáenz is a UCLA Writing Project fellow, an alumna of the VONA/Voices Workshop for Writers of Color and a Macondo Writer's Workshop Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in publications including Diálogo, Split this Rock, Out of Anonymity, Angels Flight Literary West, Every Other, Cockpit Revue Paris and The Acentos Review.
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