Filipino-American poet, playwright, and performer Aimee Suzara creates poetic and theatrical work to provoke dialogue and social change. Suzara is the author of the new poetry book BIRTH LANGUAGE (Tia Chucha Press, 2026) which was a Martin Cruz Award/Golden Poppy Award finalist, SOUVENIR (Wordtech Editions 2014), which was a Willa Award Finalist, and two chapbooks, Finding the Bones and The Space Between. Her poems, prose and plays have appeared in Kartika Review, California Language Association Journal, Orion Magazine, Raising Mothers, Poets.org, Mom Egg Review, and Women Re-Creating Classics, among others. Her commissioned play THE REAL SAPPHO was supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation New Works program and the National Endowment for the Arts. Suzara was a 2025 San Francisco Foundation / Nomadic Press Literary Award winner, and has been been awarded fellowships and residencies by Poetry and the Senses at UC Berkeley, Mesa Refuge, the Key West Literary Seminar, A Room of Her Own, Hedgebrook and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.  As a multidisciplinary performer, she has collaborated with dance theater and music ensembles such as Deep Waters Dance Theater and the Grammy-Award-winning Kronos Quartet. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Mills College.  Based in Oakland, California, she teaches writing at Bay Area colleges and through her coaching business Wild Tongues.www.aimeesuzara.net

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Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright, and interdisciplinary performer based in Oakland, CA. She is the author of poetry book BIRTH LANGUAGE (Tia Chucha Press 2026) a Golden Poppy Award finalist, SOUVENIR (Wordtech Editions 2014), which was Willa Award Finalist, and poems and prose appear in many publications and journals. Her commissioned play THE REAL SAPPHO was supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation New Works Fund andd National Endowmen for the Arts and she was a 2025 San Francisco Foundation / Nomadic Press Literary Award winner. As a multidisciplinary performer, she has collaborated with dance theater and music ensembles such as Deep Waters Dance Theater and the Grammy-Award-winning Kronos Quartet. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Mills College.  Based in Oakland, California, she teaches writing at Bay Area colleges and through her coaching business Wild Tongues.

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Filipino-American poet, playwright, performer, and educator Aimee Suzara is the author of the new poetry book BIRTH LANGUAGE (Tia Chucha Press 2026) which was a Golden Poppy Award finalist, and SOUVENIR (Wordtech Editions 2014), which was a Willa Award Finalist. Suzara was a 2025 San Francisco Foundation / Nomadic Press Literary Award winner and her work has appeared in Kartika Review, California Language Association Journal, Orion Magazine, Raising Mothers, Poets.org, Mom Egg Review, and Women Re-Creating Classics. Based in Oakland, California, she teaches writing at Bay Area colleges and universities and through her coaching business Wild Tongues.