Michelle Brittan Rosado is the author of Why Can't it Be Tenderness (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2018), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Her chapbook, Theory on Falling into a Reef (Anhinga Press, 2016) won the Rick Campbell Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Poet Lore, among others, and the anthologies, Time You Let Me In - 25 Poets Under 25 (Greenwillow Books, 2010); and Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience (Triangle Square, 2019).