May 4, 2025

Nina C. Peláez

John Doe is a passionate poet whose work explores the depths of human emotion and experience.

Nina C. Peláez is a poet, educator, and cultural producer based in Maui, Hawaiʻi whose work explores themes of adoption, dislocation, diasporic identity, mythology, and ecology. A Best New Poets nominee, her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Electric Literature, Rattle, Willow Springs, Pleiades and swamp pink, among others. She was awarded the Coniston Prize by Radar Poetry and has been supported by Tin House, Yaddo, AWP’s Writer to Writer Program, and the Key West Literary Seminars. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and is a mentor for The Adroit Journal. Follow her on Instagram @ninacpelaez.

Tell me—

how might you move

if you thought you would be safe?

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POEMS 

For me, poetry has served as a way of making meaning from rupture, a means of holding what’s missing and writing into the gaps in language and memory—an attempt to narrate the untraceable, to grieve what has no name.

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