Viva Padilla

Viva Padilla is a first-generation Chicana poet, magazine editor, publisher, translator, writer, and bookstore owner born and raised in Los Angeles. She is the founding editor in chief of sin cesar, a literary magazine established in 2015 that amplifies Black and Brown voices from our communities, and publishes the magazine and other titles at her bookstore, Re/arte, in the heart of Boyle Heights. She is the author of a chapbook, INSUMISA, and lives with her son on the Eastside.