Tiziana La Melia is a painter, poet, and collaborator based on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh territories (Vancouver, Canada). In her writing and art practice, La Melia gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, fantasy, and iterative shapes and symbols, which move through layers of diasporic time. She is the author of lettuce lettuce please go bad (2024), The Eyelash and the Monochrome (2018), and Oral Like Cloaks, Dialect (2015/2018).