Gabriel Cortez

Gabriel Cortez is a poet of Black, white, and Panamanian descent. A recipient of fellowships and awards from Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA), Palette Poetry, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Cortez is the inaugural poet in residence at The Ecology Center and Shelterwood Collective. Cofounder of The Root Slam, he teaches and lives in the Bay Area on the unceded territory of the Ohlone peoples.