Georgina Marie Guardado

I write from land of the Eastern and Northern Pomo peoples of Lake County, Northern California. I am a writer, poet, and the Poet Laureate of Lake County 2020-2024, the first Mexican American and youngest to serve in this role. I am also of Mojave descent. My poetry is very much of the self, of grief, of generational trauma, of longing, and of nature. I aim to bring diversity, inclusivity, and inspiration to my local literary community. Formal bio: Georgina Marie Guardado is the Poet Laureate of Lake County, CA for 2020-2024, and a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. She is the Literacy Program Coordinator for the Lake County Library, President of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference Board of Directors, and a contributing writer for Antioch University’s Common Thread News. As part of the Broken Nose Collective, an annual chapbook exchange, she created her first poetry chapbook, Finding the Roots of Water, in 2018 and her second chapbook, Tree Speak, in 2019. She has received support from the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Hugo House, and SF Writing Salon. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo Review, Poets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, The Muleskinner Journal, Colossus: Freedom, and Two Hawks Quarterly. She is a 1st year graduate student and scholar of the Kwame Dawes Mapmakers and Master of Fine Arts Merit endowments at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. She lives with her rescue dog Micco, formerly feral cat Mistie, and is currently working on her full-length poetry manuscript The Length of Trauma Covets.