ANTHONY
PRINCIPE-CONTRERAS

Writer/Poet

he/him

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Anthony is a Filipino-Mexican American writer and poet.  Graduated from UC Berkeley where he studied English.  He learned to craft his voice as a writer, focusing on the literary significance of the American diaspora. His poem “When We Say” was published in 2022 in the San Francisco-based Mahalaya and he looks forward to completing his first chapbook titled Poems From a Mestizo later this year. Born in Fremont, CA and raised in Sacramento, CA, he now resides in Oakland, CA.