About

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the author of the chapbooks Plastic Pájaros & rude girl is lonely girl! Her poems have been featured in Bustle, Glamour Magazine & The Huffington Post. She is a VONA (2016) alumn, a 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion, a Brenda Moosey Video Slam Winner. She has been an instructor for Slam Camp, a performance poetry summer intensive program, a writer for the Guardian, & an editor for Pizza Pi Press. She currently coaches the Simmons Poetry Slam team & works as a bookseller. She wants to reclaim the word "desperate," believes in saying no, & wishes to hold up mirrors for young girls who have yet to find reflections of themselves. Look out for her upcoming chapbook with Button Poetry coming Spring 2017.

photo by Button Poetry