Maritza N. Estrada is a first-year MFA student in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She is the recipient of the 2019 Virginia G. Piper Creative Research Fellowship, winner of the Mabelle A. Lyon Poetry Award, and recently participated in Winter Tangerine's workshop at Poet's House. Her work can be found in Río Grande Review, The Flat Waters Stirs: An Anthology of Emerging Nebraska Poets, Misbehaving Nebraskans Anthology,and 13th Floor Magazine. Estrada was born in Washington, raised in Nebraska, and is marking residencia in Arizona