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Poet Bio: Marissa Anne Ayala is a poet and visual artist based in New York City. She studied at Naropa University, The New School, and recently attended the Home School poetry conference. Her collaborative multi-media exchange The Postcard Project: Inside/Outside is exhibited at Handwritten, NYC Optics will be featured in an upcoming issue of Glassworks Magazine, and her mixed-media art can be viewed at Kolaj Magazine. She designed and led a series of ekphrastic poetry workshops with Pen & Brush art gallery and The Battery Conservancy. You can find her on Twitter@MarissaAAyala

Author Statement: My goal as a poet is to enjoy language, sound, and emotions by playing with narratives like a painter paints. I am working on an experimental memoir, Photometry, which weaves in theories of optics with my lived experiences in Colorado, Rhode Island, and New York City, and would like to complete this project by 2018. Additionally, I'm excited about early morning tea and poetry as I work on pieces for 30/30.

Your support gives me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month.

Tupelo Press provides the canvas, I bring my words, accompanied by other fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 90 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.