#Edyka Chilomé

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Edyka Chilomé is a Poet, writer, producer, and cultural worker currently based east of the Arkikosa River (North Texas). She is a queer indigenous mestiza child of  migrant activists from the lands of the Zacateco (Mexico) people and was raised in migrant justice movements grounded in the tradition of spiritual activism. Edyka holds a B.A. in social and political philosophy with an emphasis on social justice from Loyola University Chicago and an M.A. in Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies from Texas Women's University with an emphasis on Women of Color theory and Indigenous epistemologies.

Praised  for her authentic and powerful voice Edyka has been featured and asked to share her poetry and speak on multiple media platforms and in spaces around the country and Latin America including TEDx, NPR, The Huffington Post, GLAAD, The Tucson Poetry Festival, GOOGLE,  Prindle Institute for Ethics,  The Lincoln Center in New York, The Dallas Museum of Art, Remezcla, Fierce by Mitú, Palabritas at Harvard University, The American Family Therapy Academy,  UPenn, The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, The Texas Democratic Convention, her homegirls back yards, kitchen tables, and street corners. She has produced and published numerous articles, essays, plays, and poems including a collection of poetry that explores queer indigenous mestizaje in the diaspora entitled “She Speaks | Poetry”, praised by the founder of Democracy Now en Español as "...a must read for those yearning to discover new ways to open up to deep personal and global transformation." Her newest bilingual collection of poetry "El Poemario del Colibrí / The Hummingbird Poems" is an intimate look at healing in diaspora as spiritual resistance. As stated in Acentos Review, "Chilomé wrote [this book] to document her healing, but she published it for us to begin our own".

In 2017 Edyka was named top 25 most influential artists in the DFW by Artist Uprising Magazine. Summer of 2018 Edyka was apart of the Sandra Cisnero's  Macondo Writers Workshop. She was also a 2018 - 2019 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow, a 2020 VONA Voices participant, and an inaugural fellow in the 2020 Black, Indigenous, People of Color Screenwriting Lab created by LA based organization Justice For My Sister. Most recently Edyka was an inaugural recipient of the 2021 Sundance Institute Uprise Grant. Her current project, titled Earthroot: a revolution blooming, is an on screen adaptation of her co written play Where Earth Meets The Sky.