About
Nikolai Garcia is all-city L.A. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles; graduated from Birmingham High School in The Valley; went to East L.A. College (where he studied Journalism and Creative Writing under Jean Stapleton and Carol Lem, respectively); spent 12 years working in Skid Row; currently works in East Hollywood, and has been sleeping in Compton for the last 15 years. He has been published in the anthologies, The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles, (Tia Chucha Press, 2016), & Extreme: An Anthology for Social and Environmental Justice, (Vagabond Books, 2018), and in various literary journals. He is a founding member of the Coleman Collective and is Assistant Editor for Dryland, a literary arts journal based in South Central. |