About the Author

Rosa Alcalá once lived in Brooklyn, near the Jay St. stop of the ACE train; she now lives in El Paso, where she’s an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Texas. Her poetry and translations have appeared in a number of journals, including Mandorla, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter, Superlux, Chain, and P-Queue. She has a chapbook, Some Maritime Disasters this Century, published by the Belladonna Books.