Luivette Resto, born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx, is the author of three collections, Living On Islands Not Found On Maps (Flowersong Press, 2022), Ascension (Tia Chucha, 2013), and Unfinished Portrait: Poems (Tia Chucha, 2008). She is a fellow of the CantoMundo literary organization and the Macondo Writers Workshop and is on the board of Women Who Submit, a non-profit focused on women and nonbinary writers. Her work has appeared in Spillway, North American Review, The Mas Tequila Review, Dryland and in the anthologies, What Saves Us (Curbstone Books, 2019) and Gathering.