Magdiel ¢ents was born 1997 in Habana, Cuba — raised on the Westside of Chicago — and went to Iowa for poetry. Graduated the University of Iowa with a degree in English — Creative Writing and Anthropology — and came home carrying something.

His work lives at the intersection of trap culture and literary tradition, street theology and existential philosophy. He writes to flex and to finesse. To survive and to document.

His debut collection, Michigan Lakeside Driftwood from Habana, published through Chiraq Kerouac LLC, is a dispatch from every room he's ever been in. He withheld it for a while. Now he's releasing it. That's the full circle.