Latif Askia Ba is a poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy from Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and was the Print Poetry Editor for the Columbia Journal's 61st issue. He’s also an author at Stillhouse Press who published his first full-length collection, The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon, in September of 2022. His work appears in Poetry Magazine and many other places.