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Camilo Loaiza Bonilla (he/him/él) is a Latine writer working to unwind generational silence as a queer, trans, first-generation immigrant. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida and, with support from Macondo Writers Workshop, Tin House, Graywolf Press, and Black Lawrence Press, his work is in or forthcoming from Tupelo Quarterly, Frontier Poetry, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. Exploring the intersection of poetry and visual art, he is the 2025-2026 Eleanor Merritt Fellow at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art and the inaugural Poet-in-Residence at Hillsborough Community College’s Art Galleries. His solo art exhibition—Raíces/Roots: Camilo Loaiza Bonilla—recently exhibited at UTampa’s Scarfone/Hartley Gallery.
Exhibitions
Raíces/Roots: Camilo Loaiza Bonilla
Raíces/Roots: Camilo Loaiza Bonilla Companion Book (UTampa Press)
“Raíces/Roots: Camilo Loaiza Bonilla Coming to the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery” (UTampa News)
Raíces/Roots – Camilo Loaiza Bonilla: Exhibition Guide (UTampa Macdonald-Kelce Library)
Recent Work
“my body is a poem” in Quarterly West, October 2025
Other Publications
“What They Don’t Tell You” in The Acentos Review, January 2023
“Things Left Unsaid” in Vanderbilt Lives, May 2020
Contact Me
Instagram at camiloloaizabonilla
camiloloaizabonilla at gmail dot com
Camilo Loaiza Bonilla 