Margaret Elysia Garcia  is the author of the short story collection Graft, published by Tolsun Books in 2022, and the poetry chapbook Burn Scars, published in 2022 which was featured on North State Public Radio and speaks to living through the Dixie Fire of 2021. She's the author of the daughterland poems, published by El Martillo Press in 2023. She's the co-editor of Red Flag Warning: Northern Californians Living with Wildfire, an anthology about to be published by HeyDay Books in 2024. She teaches poetry with Community Literary Initiative in Los Angeles. She's currently working on her second collection of poetry and a second collection of short stories.