Osmani Ochoa is a queer Mexican-Xicano poet, co-editor at Maíz Poppin’ Press, and longtime national organizer for immigrant and worker rights based in San Antonio, Texas. Their migrant futurist writing appears in Space & Time, Star*Line, Windward Review, La Raíz Magazine, Stone of Madness, and more. They won the 2025–26 Abode Press Chapbook Prize for How to Survive an Asthma Attack in a Climate Apocalypse and are featured in Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope (Mouthfeel Press) and Xicanxfuturism: Gritos for Tomorrow (Riot of Roses Press, forthcoming). Ochoa is currently pursuing an MFA at Randolph College.

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