Sara Daniele Rivera is a Cuban Peruvian American artist, writer, translator, and educator. Her writing has appeared in TheBreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, Solstice, Waxwing, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of a 2017 St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Award, the winner of the 2018 Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry (Solstice Magazine), and a 2022 Tin House resident. She is a co-translator of The Blinding Star: Selected Poems by Blanca Varela (Tolsun Books, 2021) and co-editor of Not Your Papi's Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope(Mouthfeel Press, 2025). Her debut book of poetry, The Blue Mimes (Graywolf Press, 2024), won the 2023 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. She lives in Albequerque, New Mexico.
Leslie B. Neustadt is a retired attorney, poet, and collage artist. Her books include Becoming Fruit: a Poetic Journey(Spirit Wind Books, 2014), and most recently, The Sustenance of Stars (Kelsay Books, 2024). Her poems have been published in a number of anthologies and journals, including Veils, Halos & Shackles, International Poetry on Oppression and Empowerment of Women; The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary American Jewish Poetry; Rumors Secrets & Lies: Stories & Poems About Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice,and others. She is a board member of the International Women's Writing Guild, chairs its program committee, and produces their workshop series. She lives in Niskayuna, NY.
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