Salvadoran-American poet Cynthia Guardado is the author of two collections, Cenizas (Univ. of Arizona Press, 2022) and ENDEAVOR (World Stage Press, 2017). She was winner of the Concurso Binacional De Poesía Pellicer-Frost 2017 (México) and, in 2019, her manuscript, Cenizas, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Huizache, Bozalta Journal, The Acentos Review, and The Packinghouse Review, among other publications. She has translated interviews with journalist and Cuban exile, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez which were published in The Madrid Conversations (New Orleans Press, 2013). She is the editor-in-chief of LiveWire, an online literary magazine at Fullerton College where she is a professor of English.