Ayling Zulema Dominguez (they/she) is a poet, mixed media artist, and youth arts educator from Bronx, NY, with roots in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. As a creative in an abolitionist mindset, their work aims to forge community; to affirm belonging as the first step toward liberation; to imagine new, better, and more radically loving worlds. They believe in art that dares to ask, “Who are we at our most free?” They have been a Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow, awarded a seat at Cave Canem workshops, and The Watering Hole Poetry Retreat. Ayling is currently pursuing an MFA at ASU.

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