Ode to the Caterpillar – Karla Cordero

KARLA CORDERO, Poet

Karla Cordero is a descendant of the Chichimeca peoples of  northern Mexico, a Chicana poet, educator and author of the poetry  collection, How To Pull Apart The Earth (Not A Cult.) a 2019 San Diego  Book Award winner and awarding-winning finalist for the International  Latino Book Award and the International Book Award. Her work has  appeared on NPR, Academy of American Poets, O-Oprah Magazine, Split  This Rock, PANK, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4 LatiNext Anthology, among  other publications. Karla is a recipient of the 2021 California Arts  Fellowship, in addition, she is a Macondo, VONA, CantoMundo, Tin House,  Pink Door Writing Retreat, Community of Writers Fellow. Karla is the  Executive Director for the non-program Glassless Minds and a professor in  composition and creative writing at MiraCosta College and San Diego City  College. Follow her @karlaflaka13 https://www.karlacordero.com/