Alexis Aceves Garcia is a trans writer, researcher, and facilitator living and longing in San Diego, CA. Their poems have been featured on The Slowdown, beestung, rivulet, The Hennepin Review, Peach Mag, The Best of the Net Anthology 2022, Apogee Journal, and The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNext. Aceves Garcia is an incoming 3rd year in the MFA in Writing Program at UCSD where they are working on a hybrid manuscript that circles trans temporality, desire, and what it means to queer their family archive. Follow them on Instagram @loveloaf_.