Lora Mathis
About
Lora Mathis is an artist and poet from California. They grew up in-between Quebec and Southern California, and now live in Oakland. They received their Bachelor’s degree in English & Art Practice at UC Berkeley. The Snakes Came Back is their third book of poems. Their first collection, The Women Widowed to Themselves, was republished by Party Trick Press in 2020. Here I Am In It, a cross-genre work on observation, banality, and grief was released by Burn All Books in 2022. In addition to being a poet, Mathis is a visual artist who crosses mediums including video, photography, sculpture, performance, design, and sound. In live poetry performance, they tend to incorporate video and photography. Many of these performances also include live sound by their friend and collaborator, Matty Terrones. For the past decade, they have been sharing their work on the internet and self-publishing zines. They coined the phrase Radical Softness as a Weapon.
