Guillermo Allen Santos Honkala was born in Philadelphia exactly halfway through the year. He has thusly always been trapped between two worlds. Past and future, regret and hope, his Native American heritage and his Puerto Rican heritage, the activistic world and the artistic ones. He has found though that all of these are not as conflicting as they may seem but instead are crucial components that when mixed together not only influence his large body of work, but the ways in which he navigates life.

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He began writing as a means of survival and introspection that sadly is not provided much to other BIPOC or disabled people such as himself. What first started as a way to stay sane during long hospital visits quickly expanded into a larger way of seeing, intimately acknowledging, and appreciating this world we get to live in. Thusly in much of his work you'll see themes of self, community, economic inequality, art, hope, dread, mortality and love.

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He was featured as one of the main subjects in the experimental reality cinema psuedo-documentarian film Flesh and Blood (2017) alongside his film making brother and his political activist mother.

 

His fiction has been published in Semipermeable Magazine's inaugural issue, and his cultural criticism has been published by NPR.