Marta Collazo

Marta Collazo, an Afro-Boricua woman with short cropped white hair, wearing a seafoam top with a bulldog pin and big round white sunglasses, poses for a picture in front of a cherry wood background.

Photo courtesy of the poet

Marta Collazo (she/her) is a Queer, Afro-Latina poet who has explored and deconstructed how heteronormative constructs, culture, gender, spirituality, monogamy, body agency, guilt, and shame play a role in oppression. Her work was published in the anthology Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el corazón y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press, 2001). Collazo’s origins began in Lorain, Ohio, a result of a huge migration from Puerto Rico in the 1940s. She has lived in Chicago since 1969. Collazo is a supporter of multiple art practices and spiritual and emotional practices, and since 2007, she has taught open-eyed meditation.