Aya de Leon is an American novelist and activist who teaches at the University of California Berkeley. She first came to national attention as a spoken-word artist in the underground poetry scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a hip-hop theater artist. de Leon is of Puerto Rican, African-American, and West Indian heritage, and much of her work explores issues of race, gender, socio-economic class, body, nation and the climate crisis.
- Occupation
- writer, poet, novelist, lecturer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1967
- Website
- https://ayadeleon.wordpress.com
