Felicia Martínez is a Latinx artist and writer from eastern New Mexico, though she now calls the San Francisco East Bay home. She is the author of The Other Lives of Altagracia Sanchez (Querencia Press) and These Bright and Perilous Designs (Thinking Ink Press). She has been guest poetry editor at The Deadlands, the SFPA Elgin Awards Chair, a Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers finalist, and received her PhD in English from Stanford University.