Aimee Suzara

09/03/2026

A couple pics from my Craft & Criticism event at College of San Mateo yesterday. I wish I had gotten a picture of the audience- the lecture hall was full! Great attention and questions.

08/31/2026

The full interview/podcast episode from last week when I was the Resistance in Residence artist on Law & Disorder on KPFA 94.1 FM is here! It was played in five minute segments last week and now it’s altogether. Thanks again to KPFA and host Cat Brooks for the lovely interview.

Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is Oakland based poet, playwright, and performer Aimee Suzara. Aimee Suzara’s second full-length book Birth Language, centers on a Filipina-American time traveling through her history, twisted and haunted like the roots of a balete tree. The book fuses ...

08/30/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the launch of my book birth language at Nomadic Bookshop in Oakland! It was a wonderful turnout, full space, warm and attentive energy, a creative collective reading where I felt supported by my poetic family Yaccaira Salvatierra and David Maduli and dear friends/fam in the audience Stephanie Bastos Eyla Moore Fiona Imogene Leila Christopher Pearson Celana Pearson-Ahtye Jackie Graves Jennifer Meek Aileen Suzara & more 💗🎉💗

08/28/2026

If you’re in the San Francisco area / S Bay  save the date for the SF book launch, Sept 13 at Medicine for Nightmares bookstore in the Mission! 🎤📚📖

08/28/2026

Exciting news! I’m honored that Birth Language is one of the five finalists for the Martin Cruz Smith - Golden Poppy Book Award. Congratulations to all the finalists!!! 🙌🏾🎉 check out all of the titles that were selected, and there’s another list of children’s titles as well! Aimee Suzara https://www.caliballiance.org/golden-poppy-awards

Thanks to Tia Chucha Press & Red Hen Press. Aimee Suzara

08/28/2026

Exciting news! I’m honored that Birth Language is one of the five finalists for the Golden Poppy Book Award. Congratulations to all the finalists!!! 🙌🏾🎉I’ve only posted the Martin Cruz Smith finalists here, but there are amazing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, sci-fi, and romance finalists that were announced as well!

08/28/2026

Tomorrow in Oakland!

08/24/2026

Honored to be a Resistance in Residence artist TODAY with Cat Brooks' on KPFA Radio's Law and Disorder...it was a pleasure to be interviewed and engage in conversation. The segment aired this morning, and you can catch the whole show here!

The residence was timed just in time to invite you all to the first launch event this Saturday at Nomadic Bookshop.

It will air a short segment each day at the end of the 8-9am show, and at the very end we'll have the full podcast of the conversation.

In today’s episode, we speak with author, influencer and anti-Zionist Jewish activist Sim Kern about their book Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation Our Resistance in Residence artist this week is Oakland based poet, playwright, and performer Aimee Suzara. He...

08/12/2026

Bay Area: join me and my poet-friends at Nomadic Bookshop on Aug 29 in my town, Oakland, CA. It's the first official launch event! Please DO RSVP here to reserve a spot and buy your book (and so the bookstore has plenty of copies on hand!) https://nomadicpress.org/events/book-launch-birth-language-by-aimme-suzara/