gregg yupanki bautista
b. 1987, NJ 

Gregg is a writer, artist, and musician born and raised in the US to Peruvian immigrants. He received a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts with a concentration in Painting. Heavily influenced by his Andean heritage, Gregg allows this thread to connect all of his work, which explores themes of migration as a natural phenomenon and circumstances that may lead to the dissonance of cultural assimilation vs. integration. His poetry has appeared in By The WAYE and The Red Wheelbarrow, and his visual art has appeared in New American Paintings and earned him residencies with the Vermont Studio Center and the School of Visual Arts.

As a musician, Gregg records and releases music under his own name, as well as recording and performing under the mononym Yupanki. Yupanki is a conceptual music project that spans mediums, which Gregg collectively refers to as The Yupanki Project. Releases include an EP and singles, and an illustrated chapbook of poems and short stories titled Un Lugar Lejos: Valleys (Echo Thread Books, 2024).

He is also the founder of Echo Thread Projects, hosts a monthly poetry open mic series in Hopewell, NJ called Poets & Storytellers Open, and is currently working on the next installments of Yupanki as well as a full length collection of poetry.

Gregg is based somewhere in the Sourlands of NJ.