Tierra y mar

Leila Zak writes in English and Spanish. She won Oxford’s Spanish Flash Fiction Competition for her piece ’Salvavidas’ in 2022. Her research interests, however, are cross-continental. Inspired by her volunteer work with refugees in Hong Kong, she wrote a debut novel Displaced and Erased (which was self-translated into Spanish). The following collection of three poems, Tierra y mar, presents an exploration of the generational silencing of indigenous languages and cultures in Latin America that has come with colonialism and forced-assimilation. She lives in Hong Kong.