Camilo Loaiza Bonilla


  • 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 Poetry from the University of South Florida and, with support from Macondo Writers Workshop, Tin House, and Black Lawrence Press, his art is in or forthcoming from Frontier Poetry, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. Exploring the intersection of poetry and visual art, he served as the 2025-2026 Eleanor Merritt Fellow at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art and the inaugural Poet-in-Residence at Hillsborough College Art Galleries. His solo art exhibition—Raíces/Roots: Camilo Loaiza Bonilla—exhibited at the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery at the University of Tampa.

Editorial Work

Genre-Bending, Gender-Breaking: A Folio of Queered Poetics (Tupelo Quarterly)

Latinx Digital Poetics: Resistance Through Joy (The Los Angeles Review/Letras Latinas)

Exhibitions

Raíces/Roots: Camilo Loaiza Bonilla (Aug–Oct 2025)

Selected Publications

“my body is a poem” (Quarterly West)

<– Women’s | Men’s –>
“<– Women’s | Men’s –>” (Graywolf Lab by Graywolf Press)
“Kudzu Vine on Lettuce Lake” (Florida Humanities)
“back to back” (The Los Angeles Review)
“Dios te salve, Maria” (So to Speak: language + intersectionality + art)

Contact

Instagram at camiloloaizabonilla

camiloloaizabonilla at gmail dot com