Leo Boix

Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet born in Argentina who lives in London. His debut English collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (Chatto & Windus, 2021), was awarded the Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. Boix’s second English collection, Southernmost: Sonnets, was published by Chatto & Windus in June 2025. He is the editor of the groundbreaking book Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Poetry (Fourteen).

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On Guest-Editing the British Latinx Issue: Karina Lickorish Quinn and Leo Boix

We spoke to writer and lecturer Karina Lickorish Quinn and poet Leo Boix about guest co-editing Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia — British Latinx Writing & Art, which critically explores the vibrancy and creativity of the British Latin American and Latinx communities. They discuss their editorial process, the importance of foregrounding Indigenous languages, structural flaws in the British publishing industry, discovering new writers and hidden gems, plus more.

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