Paz Pacheco Hall is a Trans Masculine Chicane poet born and raised in Southern Colorado. Through inter-genre poetic projects, he maps how history, culture, emotion, and identity interplay with place, landscape, and ecosystems. Through his work, Paz hopes to provide liberatory understandings of where we’ve been, where we are, and where we are going both as individuals and as a species.

Paz earned their bachelor’s degree in English – Creative Writing from Colorado State University – Fort Collins where they found their focus as an environmental poet through a broad, intersectional understanding of what makes up the environments we live in. After their undergraduate study, Paz founded a creative writing and storytelling open mic in their hometown of Pueblo, Colorado. Now known as Id, their open mic blossomed into a community space for creatives from all walks of life to come together and create in tandem. After the success of Id, they began After Id, a monthly instructional writers’s workshop open to all genres and experience levels. Both Id and After Id have continued after their move.

Now an MFA student at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas, Paz studies poetry and nonfiction as he writes his full length inter-genre poetry project, BIG HILL. BIG HILL maps out the emotional, historical, and environmental landscapes that make up the self through nonfiction, poetry, and photography. In the meantime, Paz’s work has been published by Greyrock Review, Torrey House Press, and Voicemail Poems. When he’s not writing, he can be found exploring, baking, or enjoying local theatre. He enjoys short books, long poems, and complex prairie ecosystems.