Maria Isabelle Carlos is a writer and editor from Missouri. She has received support from UNC-Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt University, the Lambda Literary Foundation, Tin House, Storyknife Writers Retreat, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Unbound Book Festival. She serves as an executive editor at Bull City Press, assistant nonfiction editor of Zone 3, and associate editor at Haymarket Books. Find her work at www.mariaisabellecarlos.com.

Contributions: Two poems [Spring 2024]