Chicago Poet Laureate Mayda Alexandra del Valle is a poet, performer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist from Chicago’s South Side. Author of A South Side Girl’s Guide to Love and Sex and The University of Hip-Hop , she is a winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize and a former Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and National Poetry Slam champion—the youngest and first Latine poet to ear