“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
-Angela Davis
Yazlin Juarez is a writer and artist based in Pico Rivera with a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. Since youth, Yazlin has taken every opportunity to forge poetry, photography, and design into an instrument of social change and cultural pride. She was awarded the 1st Place Prize in the 38th Congressional District Art Competition in 2018, earning the honor of displaying her photograph in the Cannon Tunnel in Washington D.C. Yazlin discovered her love of theater through the Cultural Arts and Diversity Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz, where she led student productions as the director of Poet’s Corner. Yazlin is a recent fellow of the 2024 Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop and a current fellow of the Stage Raw x Unusual Suspects Arts Journalism program. She is published in the Red Wheelbarrow Anthology, TWANAS Press, and PubLab and continues to capture her history from a queer Chicana lens. Yazlin now proudly serves as a marketing associate for the Latino Theater Company in Los Angeles.
