Bryan Medina
S. Bryan Medina is the author of Tears of a Man Transfixed (2025) and More than Soil, Less than Sand (2017). An icon of local poetry slam culture, Medina founded The Inner Ear, The Beat Down Slam, and Poetry and Pints Free Writer’s Workshop, and was named Fresno County’s third Poet Laureate. His work has appeared in Flies, Cockroaches, and Poets, In the Grove, The San Joaquin Review, Jubilee, and Invisible Memoirs, among others. Medina is a Gulf War veteran and a graduate of Fresno Pacific University.
