Filipino American poet, playwright, performer, and educator, Aimee Suzara, is the author of the poetry collection SOUVENIR (Wordtech Editions, 2014) and two chapbooks, Finding the Bones and The Space Between (Finishing Line Press, 2013 and 2008). Her poems, prose, and plays have appeared in Kartika Review, California Language Association Journal, Orion Magazine, Raising Mothers, Poets.org, Mom Egg Review, and Women Re-Creating Classics(Bloomsbury 2025), among others. As a multidisciplinary performer, Suzara has collaborated with dance theater and music ensembles such as Deep Waters Dance Theater and the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Mills College. Based in Oakland, California, she teaches writing at Bay Area colleges and universities and through her coaching business, Wild Tongues.