Feliz Lucia Molina was born and raised in a Filipino diaspora in the San Fernando Valley, California. She holds a BA in Writing & Literature and minor in Religious Studies from Naropa University, and graduate degrees in Literary Arts from Brown University, Clinical Social Work from The University of Chicago, and a PhD (ABD) at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She taught poetry at Brown, UC San Diego, and Cal State San Marcos, and is the recipient of poetry fellowships from Kundiman and MacDowell.

Her books include Undercastle (Magic Helicopter Press), The Wes Letters (Outpost19), and Roulette from Make Now Books. Her chapbooks are An Essay Of Things About Someone I First Met and Spent Time With For One Day in Tokyo (Magic Helicopter Press) and Crystal Marys (Scary Topiary Press). She is working on various poetry manuscripts and gathering notes and memories about growing up in board and care facilities.

Her writing appears in and has been supported by PEN America, The Poetry Foundation, Guggenheim Museum, Open Space at SF MOMA, Fence Magazine, Jacket2, among others, and was previous poetry editor for Los Angeles Review of Books and co-organizer of Desert Poetry. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter and animals and works as a psychotherapist in private practice.

Read five poems from Feliz below. Originally featured online in Scrambler (March 2013). These poems are in her book Undercastle (Magic Helicopter Press).