ana atalaya magdalena
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Ana Atalaya Magdalena (b.2002) is a Queer Chicana artist and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work addresses the relationship between history and identity through self-portraiture and memoir.
She has been a Brower Youth Award Winner, a recipient of the 30 under 30 Changemaker’s Award, and at one time the Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Inlandia Literary Journal, Subnivean Magazine, Magma Poetry, and Fifth Wheel Press (from whom she received a 2022 Pushcart Prize Nomination). Her artwork has been shown by Des Lee Gallery, Zane Bennet Contemporary Art Gallery, The SITE Santa Fe Museum, and the El Museo Cultural Santa Fe, among others.
In 2024, Magdalena attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art Residency, and from 2024-2025, Magdalena served as an Atkins Fellow for the Gephart Institute. In May of 2025, she earned a B.A. in Studio Arts, with a Second Major in American Culture Studies from the Sam Fox School at Washington University. Last year, Magdalena’s first full-length poetry collection, She Who Eats Tourists, was published under Fifth Wheel Press. Her favorite color is the teal of a hummingbird feather.