Anatalia Vallez is a writer, actor, and creative alchemist, currently pursuing her MFA in Television, Film and Theatre at Cal State LA. She is the author of the poetry collection: The Most Spectacular Mistake (FlowerSong Press, 2020) and has been featured in the LA Times, LibroMobile and KPFK Radio’s Nuestra Voz. Most recently seen in the play Black Butterfly, Jaguar Girl, Piñata Woman, and other Superhero Girls, Like Me by Luis Alfaro, Alma E. Cervantes, Sandra C. Muñoz and Marisela Norte, where five girls honor East LA and the many ups and downs of adolescence through monologues, vignettes, and poetic interludes.