Marcela Huerta
Marcela Huerta (she/they/he) is a second-generation Chilean-Canadian who was born in Victoria, British Columbia. She is a Communication Design graduate of Emily Carr University and worked for several years as a graphic designer. They were also the poetry editor for carte blanche magazine and an assistant editor for Drawn & Quarterly. Huerta’s debut book, Tropico, was published by Metatron in 2017 and won a prize from the Académie de la vie littéraire. In 2021, Tropico was translated into French by Daphné B. and published in French by Éditions Triptyque. Huerta’s poem “cenicientas (Cenicienta)” was the 2018 winner of CV2’s 2-Day Poem Contest. In 2023, Huerta won a mentorship through Forecast for their poetic project White Horses Always Run Home. They are the Community Director at KO_OP, a worker-owned video game company based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), and the winner of a Tribeca Award for the video game Goodbye Volcano High.
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