
Hikari Leilani Miya is a Japanese Filipina American, 2019 Cornell University English major graduate, and recent poetry MFA graduate from the University of San Francisco who identifies with the LGBTQ community. She is the assistant poetry editor for USFCA’s literary magazine, Invisible City. Her poem has been nominated as a semifinalist for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2021. She has poems published or forthcoming in over a dozen literary magazines, such as Red Wheelbarrow, Chestnut Review, Eunoia Review, Cobra Milk, Survivor Lit, Macguffin, Litbreak, Jet Fuel Magazine, and Canadian magazine Fleas on the Dog.