Luis Lopez-Maldonado is a Xicanx activist, poeta, playwright, dancer, choreographer, and educator born and raised in multiple barrios across el Orange County, CA. He/Him/They/Them earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California Riverside, in Creative Writing and Dance. His/Their poetry has been seen in The American Poetry Review, Foglifter, Public Pool, and Latina Outsiders: Remaking Latina Identity, among many others. He/They also earned a Master of Arts degree in Dance from Florida State University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. He/They are currently adding glitter to the Land of Enchantment, working for the public educational system as a high school Bilingual Educator and Special Education Teacher, holding a Pre K-12 Special Education License and a Pre K-12 Specialty Area License, with endorsements in TESOL, Bilingual Education, Performing Arts, and English Language Arts. He/They are currently a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, to become a principal.

Other poems on the web by Luis Lopez-Maldonado:
Two poems
"Making you pretty again"
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Resist"
"#PrayForOrlando"
"Overqualified:"
Six poems
"On Having 5 Jobs"
"Ecdysis"
Two poems
"untitled"
"Rainbow Sprinkles"

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Other poems by Fourteen Hills in Verse Daily:
March 31, 2020:   "Ode to ICE" by Andrew Posner
November 15, 2015:   "Twins" by Brian Strang
November 14, 2015:   "Love" by Rae Gouirand
July 6 2015:   "Two Selves in Springtime" by Lauren Haldeman
July 3 2015:   "Penultimate Poem" by Matthew Zapruder
February 3, 2015:   "First Language" by Paul Hoover
February 2, 2015:   "Labor Poem #7" by Dan Alter
June 11, 2014:   "A No Good Thunderstorm" by Alexis Pope
June 10, 2014:   "Bundle, Then Swift the New Year" by Ruth Williams
January 23, 2014:   "Atmosphere" by Maxine Chernoff
June 15, 2013:   "A Name I Could Not Say Aloud" by James Allen Hall
June 14, 2013:   "Tar" by Douglas Kearney
September 19, 2012:   "Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia" by Gail Rudd Entrekin
August 19, 2012:   "Stork" by Rebecca Foust
February 27, 2012:   "Frozen River, Winter Says Goodbye" by Jesse Damiani
July 29, 2011:   "Giant Slayer Man" by Ricardo Pau-Llosa
March 25, 2011:   "[Without Objectivity]" by Alexis Pope
March 23, 2011:   "In the Early Morning in the Cypress Grove" by Michael Schiavo
September 15, 2010:   "(Save)" by Alison Doernberg
May 9, 2010:   "Drift" by Gregory Mahrer
May 8, 2010:   "Definition:" by MRB Chelko
August 28, 2009:   from Catabolism by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
August 26, 2009:   "Dear P. XII" by Victoria Chang
August 25, 2009:   "Certainly Uncertain: a Twins of tone poem" by Bob Hicok
August 24, 2009:   "Was to Have Been Called Whip-poor-will" by Lisa Olstein

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