Cathy Arellano

Cathy Arellano is just another Mexican lesbian poet from The Mission.

I LOVE MY WOMEN, SOMETIMES THEY LOVE ME depicts the lovers we’ve been and the lovers we’ve had. We haven’t always been fair; they haven’t always been kind. These poems compel us to consider what we keep at bay for the poet knows that actions and feelings must be acknowledged if they are to be changed, if we—and our liaisons—are to be transformed. Get ready to enter the ring of love and grapple like a luchador with passion and pain, hers and maybe yours.

SALVATION ON MISSION STREET, poems and stories about love and loss within her San Francisco-based family from the 1960s to the 2000s, was published by Kórima Press in 2016. In 2017, SALVATION won the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Debut Author Award.

Arellano’s writing can be found in print and online, including As Us: A Space for Women of the World, La Bloga, Curve Magazine, Duke City Fix, El Tecolote, Feminist Formations, Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature, La Voz de Esperanza, Label Me Latino: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Latino Literary Production, The Malpaís Review, The Más Tequila Review, Poetry in Flight/Poesía en Vuelo, Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Arts Journal, and Turtle Island to Abya Yala: A Love Anthology of Art and Poetry by Native American and Latina Women.