Mila Cuda

Mila Cuda is a caffeine-sensitive lesbian from Los Angeles with an unmatched enthusiasm for spiders. The former Youth Poet Laureate of the West Coast, her work has been featured on Teen Vogue, Button Poetry, Rookie, PBS and Poetry Online. An internationally ranked slam poet, her debut chapbook Dishwater Blonde was published by Penmanship in 2018. She was the lead poetry editor of the feature film Summertime (dir. by Carlos López Estrada), which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. A two-time winner of The Charlotte Paul Reese Memorial Prize for Creativity in Poetry, she now lives in Somerville, MA with her partner and the seasons. Her first full-length collection, Still, is forthcoming from Game Over Books in November 2024. Source