Mario Alejandro Ariza

Website: https://www.marioalejandroariza.com/

MARIO ALEJANDRO ARIZA is a Dominican immigrant to the United States. He is the author of the forthcoming Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Change. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Miami and a master's degree in Hispanic cultural studies from Columbia University. His poetry, journalism, and nonfiction writing can be found in places like BOAAT, the Atlantic, and the Believer.
- From The Best American Essays 2019, p. 209.

Believer

Atlantic

BOAAT

Heather Altfeld

HEATHER ALTFELD's poetry collection The Disappearing Theatre won the 2016 Poets at Work Prize, selected by Stephen Dunn. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in Conjunctions, Orion, Aeon, Narrative Magazine, and the Georgia Review, among others. She lives in northern California, where she teaches humanities and honors courses at California State University, Chico.
- From The Best American Essays 2019, p. 209.

Georgia Review

Narrative Magazine