by Christie Valentin-Bati
Christie Valentin-Bati is (unofficially) a suburban kid from Florida now mostly grown up. Officially, she is a multi-genre writer and photographer interested in the everyday/mundane. Her work has received honorable mention in the 2022 and 2021 Academy of American Poet’s Poetry Contest, has been commissioned by the ACLU of Illinois, and exhibited in Porous Gallery. She is a Poet-in-Residence with The Chicago Poetry Center and Teaching Artist at Young Chicago Authors. More of her work is at https://bit.ly/christievb or IG: @christie.vbati