Ernest Langston, a San Francisco Bay Area born Latinx writer and visual artist, was awarded a 2025 Artist Trust fellowship. He was a finalist in the 2018 and 2021 Seattle Film Summit/Bigfoot Script Challenge and 2019 PEN Writer’s Award recipient.  His short stories have appeared in Litro Magazine, Oyster River Pages, Acentos Review, and other publications.  Ernest’s artwork has been accepted at Art Week, The Ana, Pictura Journal, Visual Art Journal, The Vagabond’s Verse Literary Magazine, Gallerium Art Exhibitions’ 3^rd Annual People 2025 Exhibition, Gallerium and The Book of Arts’ 3^rd Annual Shape and Colors 2025 Exhibition, Exhibizone’s 2^nd Annual International Future 2025 Exhibition, NxEra Art Gallery, SlipStitch Studio, and The Holy Art Gallery.  He has a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing.  

“My work comes from how I perceive the physical and metaphysical world around and within me.  I create from a point of empathy, free from judgement, to greater understand my finite existence and help others navigate through theirs.  My artwork is a testimonial to my emotional experiences and discoveries intertwined with ever-present mysteries.” — Ernest Langston