Poet Laureate of San Diego from 2023 to 2024, Jason Magabo Perez is a Filipino American poet, performer, and scholar born in Detroit and raised in Southern California. He holds an MFA in Writing and Consciousness from New College of California and a dual PhD in Ethnic Studies and Communication from the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the chapbook Phenomenology of Superhero (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and the collections This Is for the Mostless (WordTech Editions, 2017) and I Ask About What Falls Away (Kaya Press, 2024). He received a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.
