Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of Graft, a collection of Chicanx noir short stories set in Southern California and published by Tolsun Press, the eBook Sad Girls & Other Stories, and the audiobook Mary of the Chance Encounters, and the poetry chapbook Burn Scars published by the Lit Kit Collective. She's the co-editor of the forthcoming Red Flag Warning: Northern Californians Living with Fire to be published by HeyDay books in 2024. She's the co-founder of Pachuca Productions-a Latina theater troupe producing original and social justice plays in the Lost Sierra and teaches a poetry class with Community Literary Initiative in Los Angeles. the daughterland is her first full-length poetry collection.
