Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Author at Cultural Weekly

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and the author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications 2016). A former Steinbeck Fellow, Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner, and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grantee, she’s received residencies from Hedgebrook, Ragdale, and National Parks Arts Foundation. She has work published in Acentos Review, CALYX, crazyhorse, and American Poetry Review among others. A dramatization of her poem “Our Lady of the Water Gallons,” directed by Jesús Salvador Treviño, can be viewed at latinopia.com. She is a member of Miresa Collective and director of Women Who Submit.

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OUR WORLD

Serving Movements for Peace from the Deserts of Arizona to the Streets of L.A.

By Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo on June 7, 2020

In the summer of 2013, I spent a week in the Tucson-sector of the US-Mexico border with No More Deaths, “a humanitarian organization based in... Read more →

Poetry

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo: “Things to Know for Compañ[email protected]”

By Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo on August 24, 2017

Things to Know for Compañ[email protected] A No More Deaths Volunteer Guide Did you know? A baby rattlesnake’s venom is more lethal because... Read more →

OUR WORLDPoetry

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo: The Sun Was Cruel Like That

By Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo on July 25, 2013

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the creator and curator of Beyond Baroque’s monthly reading series HITCHED, a founding editor of The Splinter... Read more →