Raquel Gutiérrez is a poet, performer, and essayist pursuing her MFA degree in poetry and non-fiction at the University of Arizona. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she writes about brown ontology, art, music, space and institutionality and publishes chapbooks by queers of color with the tiny press Econo Textual Objects, established in 2014. This project is supported by the Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.