Huascar Edil Medina has lived artfully in Topeka, Kansas since 2001 as a writer/actor/singer/artist. Medina is a member of Topeka's Speak Easy Poetry Group and the Red Tail Collective in Lawrence, and his first published poem appeared in HomeWords: A Project of the Kansas Poet Laureate. For Open Spaces, Medina has put together a reading of eight young poets under the collective rubric, The Space Within.