Regina YC Garcia is a nationally acclaimed, award winning poet and language artist from Greenville, NC. Her awards include the 2021 DAR American Heritage Literary First Place Award, 2024 Charlotte LitSouth Award Finalist, 2024 Jaki Shelton Green Honorable Mention Recipient, 2024 James Applewhite Honorable Mention Recipient, 2024 DAR Woman in the Arts, and she is a two-time Pushcart Nominee. She has been published in numerous journals, reviews and anthologies to include South Florida Poetry Journal, Amistad, Elevation Review, North Carolina Literary Review, Mid-Atlantic Review, Fiyah Literary Magazine, Black Fire This Time Vol. 2 and has contributed to numerous other literary and artistic collaborations. She is the author of two collections of poetry–The Firetalker’s Daughter (March 2023, Finishing Line Press) and Whispers from the Multiverse (February 2025, Aquarius Press/Willow Books).
