Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Thea Matthews is a queer Black Indigenous Mexican poet. Her poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, The Acentos Review, The Rumpus, and others. She is a contributing author in anthologies Still Here San Francisco (Foglifter Press, 2019) and Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press, 2019). www.theamatthews.com