Ayling Zulema Dominguez is a poet, educator, and community artist who dreams, writes, and takes action toward a borderless world with rematriated lands. Their writing asks us to defy colonialism and nurture collective care in its place; it asks us who we are at our most free, and explores the subversions needed in order to arrive there. Their storytelling is rooted ancestrally in the lands of Puebla, México (Nahua) and the island of Kiskeya-Ayiti. Ayling is an Artistic Development Fellow and Teaching Assistant with The Center for Imagination in the Borderlands. Their poetry has been featured in The Poetry Project, Yalobusha Review, The Seventh Wave, The Texas Review, Huizache, Alebrijes Review, Beyond Borders Literary Review, and elsewhere. Ayling is committed to nurturing collective creativity, and continues teaching art and writing workshops for community, installing and exhibiting interactive public artworks, and hyping up poets and artists at local open mics.
