Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album, Piñata Theory, and Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge. He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at the University of California at Berkeley, and a former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry Fellow at the University of San Francisco. He was proudly raised by Mexican immigrants in the Bay Area and is currently a staff writer for KQED Arts and Culture.