Youssef Alaoui Fdili is a Moroccan American Latino. His family and heritage are an endless source of inspiration for his varied, dark, spiritual and carnal writings. He has an MFA in Poetics from New College of California, Mission District, San Francisco. There, he studied classical Arabic, Spanish baroque and Moroccan contemporary poetry. He is extremely well versed in 19th Century literature of the fantastic. His writings have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Big Bridge, Cherry Bleeds, 580 Split, Carcinogenic Poetry, Tsunami Books, Red Fez, and Full of Crow.