Contributor: Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones

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Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones was born and raised in Puerto Rico. After moving stateside at eighteen, she has worked close to twenty jobs, including dojo receptionist, bookseller, tomato farmer, translator, caption writer, gorilla zinester, and assistant fiction editor/contributor to The Brooklyn Rail. Her poetry focuses on femininity, cultural duality, and diaspora. A recipient of the Ferguson Merit Award and current MFA candidate at Stony Brook Southampton, Claudia lives in Hampton Bays, NY.

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