Huascar Medina is currently the Poet Laureate of Kansas (2019-2021), a playwright and also serves as the Lit Editor for seveneightfive magazine located in Topeka, KS. He's a member of Topeka's Speak Easy Poetry Group, the Red Tail Collective in Lawrence and the Latino Writers Collective. Recent works published can be found in the Latino Book Review (2019), Finding Zen in Cowtown (Spartan Press 2017), Kansas Time & Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (Little Balkan Press 2017); and in his first collection of poems, How to Hang the Moon (Spartan Press 2017). He received the 2018 Topeka ArtsConnect Arty Award for Literature and was the selectee for Ad Astra Theatre Ensemble's 2018 Homegrown Playwright Project for his play, "Theodore's Love".