féi iká shumarí

https://feiikashumari.com/
B. 1993
féi iká shumarí wears a red band around her forehead. Long brown hair beneath it, a white blouse and acrylic nailed hands rested on her chest. She wears a 310, shumarí; and iká silver necklace as well as a protective womb belt over black pants. Eyes are closed and chin to the air

Photo courtesy of the poet

féi iká shumarí (formerly known as féi hernandez) is a two spirit/trans woman, (un)documented writer, visual artist, and healer. The author of Hood Criatura (Sundress Publications, 2020), she was a 2023 Lambda Literary fellow and 2022 Tin House Scholar. A writer of both poetry and prose, féi iká shumarí’s work has been published by Los Angeles Review of Books, Academy of American Poets, Hayden Ferry’s Review, Oxford Review of Books, TransLash Media, Split This Rock, F Newsmagazine, as well as other publications and platforms. Her work has been included in the anthologies Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings (HarperVia, 2022) and Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (Harper Perennial, 2024). féi iká shumarí is a descendent of the Pi’ma, Rarámuri, and Cora peoples. She is an MFA candidate in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s creative writing program, class of 2026.