JP Legarte
Director of Creative Operations
My Story
JP Legarte (he/she/they) is a genderfluid Filipinx American graduate student at Emerson College in Boston pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry). He also serves as a senior editor and the Community and Grant Development Assistant for Brink Literacy Project and F(r)iction and as a senior poetry reader and the Digital Director for Redivider. Her poem "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" was chosen for the 2025 Mayor’s Poetry Program in Boston, and another poem of hers titled “Sound Bites from the Language of Silence” was chosen as a finalist for the 2025 Peseroff Poetry Prize with Breakwater Review. Their other honors include being a 2025 Juniper Summer Writing Institute full scholarship recipient and a 2025 Lit Fest Emerging Writer Fellowship in Poetry finalist with Lighthouse Writers Workshop. They are currently working on a poetry manuscript focused on colonialism as extinction. You can follow them on Instagram at @jpl091.