Brenda Cárdenas has authored Trace (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2023 Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry and silver winner of Foreword Review’s Indie Poetry Prize; Boomerang (Bilingual Press); and three chapbooks. She also co-edited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, SWWIM, Braving the Body, Latinx Poetics: The Art of Poetry, TAB: Journal of Poetry and Poetics, and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Anthology. Cárdenas has served as Milwaukee’s Poet Laureate and is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.