ᜀᜎᜈ ᜊᜎ᜔ᜋᜒᜌᜓ ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊᜇᜇᜓ

Portrait by José Prieto-Sacro

Alahnna Balmeo Alvarado is a queer second-generation Filipino-American poet proudly uncovering her indigenous Igorot roots. She often writes about her innumerable romances with defiance, resilience and hope, and her works have been selected for both in-print and online publication by The Sandy River Review, Evocations Review and Spectrum Literary Journal among others.

In 2020, one of her poems was nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology by Landlocked Magazine, and in 2026 four of her poems received an Honorable Mention in Grackle & Grackle’s inaugural Green Anole Prize. Alahnna was once mentioned in the San Diego CityBeat as a "local author on the verge" - a concept she has been flirting with for many years. She is working on her first manuscript.

Since the summer of 2025, she has been fortunate enough to host creative writing workshops for The Hilom Collective - “a weekly circle for Filipinos in the diaspora — where the ancient, unhurried work of healing can take its place.”

Alahnna is currently pregnant, and lives with her husband and their beloved geriatric cat, Jaxon.