Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta (she/they) is a full professor at the City University of New York (CUNY)-BCC. Their poetry collection, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, was a 2020 finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (Get Fresh Books, 2021). She is the editor of Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge, 2019), Creative Writing Editor at Chicana/Latina Studies Journal, and a new Poetry Editor at Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ). Select work is in The Baffler; Best American Poetry; Split this Rock; Paterson Review; and Acentos Review. Works are forthcoming in Inkwell Journal and The Hopkins Review. They are a Geraldine Dodge Foundation Poet, a Macondo Fellow, and a VONA alum. Her oral history and memoir work, titled First Spanish, has been funded by the Mellon Foundation.