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JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/him) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, & first-generation United Statesian who lives with his husband in South Florida & whose work explores themes of manhood, vulnerability, rage, tenderness & joy. He’s a 2018 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, holds an MFA from the University of Miami, & his poems have been published with Ambit, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, Southeastern Humanities Review, The Nervous Breakdown, & elsewhere. Jubi’s debut collection of poems, original kink, is available now from Sibling Rivalry Press. Dr. MELISSA CASTILLO PLANAS is an Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, NY specializing in Latinx Literature and Culture. She is the author of the poetry collection Coatlicue Eats the Apple, editor of the anthology, ¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets, co-editor of La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades and co-author of the novel, Pure Bronx. Her most recent book project, with Rutgers University Press’ new Global Race and Media series (March 2020), A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture, examines the creative worlds and cultural productions of Mexican migrants in New York City. Her second poetry collection Chingona Rules is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press. LINKS A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/a-mexican-state-of-mind/9781978802278 La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades https://ohiostatepress.org/books/BookPages/castillo-garsow_verdad.html ¡Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets https://artepublicopress.com/product/manteca-an-anthology-of-afro-latin-poets/