Jason Bayani

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Jason Bayani is Filipino poet and the author of the collections Everyone I Love, Alive (Omnidawn, 2025); Locus (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019); and Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). A Kundiman Fellow, he is the recipient of the 2021 California Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship. 

Bayani is currently the codirector of Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest multidisciplinary Asian-Pacific American arts organization in the United States. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.