Asha Galindo (Chingona/Chillona/she/hers) is a lifelong storyteller, writer, and poet from the border town of Chula Vista, CA. Her work has been featured in Oxford Magazine, City Works, on The Rumpus, and in Toyon. She has also performed as part of the VAMP series from So Say We All in San Diego. Asha graduated from both San Diego City College and Humboldt State University, with degrees in English, the first in her family to do so. Currently Asha is an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa in the Nonfiction Writing Program where she also teaches Rhetoric and Publishing. She hopes to finish at least 2 essays while she's here. Her book on the history of Toyon Literary Magazine, Toyon: 65 Years of Student-Led Publishing, co-written with Erika Andrews was published in 2021 from Humboldt State University Press.