Shandela Contreras

Shandela Contreras is a Los Angeles-based poet, activist, writer, and educator. She’s the author of Cricket in the Slit of a Tummy (Bottlecap Press, 2025), Every Beautiful Pen Bleeds Through (2024) and Mellow Ballads, that move your bones (2021), and served as a California & Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador. You can find her on social media @shandelaa and https://shandelacontreras.weebly.com/