Dorsía Smith Silva is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Cavem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Obsidian Fellow, and Full Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize Shortlist (2021) and has recently been published or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Cream City Review, Poetry Northwest, The minnesota review, The Offing, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She is the author of Good Girl (micro-chapbook), editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering, and the co-editor of seven books. She has also attended the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, Tin House Workshop, and the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop. Lastly, she has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature and posts on Twitter @DSmithSilva.
