Huascar Medina is a celebrated poet, editor, and artist advocate living artfully in Lawrence, KS. Huascar is an Artist Services Program Associate at Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.
His personal work is grassroots-oriented, focusing on cultural empathy, class structures, social cohesion, first-generation trauma, minority mental health, and internalized diasporic longing and belonging: founding Topeka United,
wordssavelives.org, and
latinidad.us.
