Keanu Joaquin Del Toro

Keanu Joaquin Del Toro is a Latino-American writer who made his literary debut with his short story "The Lionfish Flower" in the anthology Stories From The Forest: 10 Stories of Nature, Love, Loss and Life. Hailing from the Sunshine State, Keanu wrote for his school paper The FSView & Florida Flambeau, and graduated with a BA in Creative Writing and a Minor in Film Studies. His stories often focus on the misadventures of angsty teens and twenty-somethings while his poetry focuses on the little things as well as the big things in life: love, depression, tequeños, paradise lost and found, and more. Keanu began writing from a young age, has had a lifelong love for poetry, and even had a phase in his mid-teens where he convinced himself he didn’t like poems even though he always went back to them; he’s glad that was short-lived. The Eve of Our Generation was originally a sporadic series of poems that were outlets for his anxiety and goofy demeanor, which evolved into an exercise in storytelling, where he explores different perspectives and conflicted feelings through verse.