Hikari Leilani Miya

Hikari (Soup) Leilani Miya (she/they) is a third-year Japanese Filipina Ph.D. student concentrating on animals and nonhumans in ecology and poetry. She graduated from Cornell University and University of San Francisco. She has certifications in herpetology from Amphibian Foundation, where she currently is on the board of communications, and is co-President of FSU's Association of Herpetologists and Entomologists. They are an animal care specialist working/volunteering at North Florida Wildlife Center and Tallahassee Museum and hardcore Pokémon Go trainer and retired musician and healthcare worker. Her first book of poems, Do Not Feed the Animal (2024) sold out at Kansas City AWP.