Adela Najarro, TWH 2025 Directors Assistant (Poetry and Fiction)

Adela Najarro is a poet with a social consciousness who is working on a novel. Her extended family left Nicaragua and arrived in San Francisco during the 1940s; after the fall of the Somoza regime, the last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. She serves on the board of directors for Círculo de poetas and Writers and works with the Latinx community nationwide, promoting the intersection of creative writing and social justice.

She has published four poetry collections, and the Letras Latinas/ Red Hen Collaborative has selected her forthcoming collection, Variations in Blue, for publication in 2025. The California Arts Council recognized her as an established artist for the Central California Region and appointed her as a 2023 Individual Artist Fellow. More information about Adela can be found at her website: www.adelanajarro.com.