Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), which was a finalist for the Whirling Prize and reviewed by Publishers Weekly. She is also an eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net finalist, Best New Poets nominee, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Semifinalist, Obsidian Fellow, Poetry Editor at The Hopper, and Full Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Literary Hub, The Los Angeles Times Review, Electric Lit and Poets.org have published her work, and poems are forthcoming in The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II, The Cimarron Review, Split This Rock's Poem of the Week Series, and Beloit Poetry Journal. She has attended the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, Tin House Winter Workshop, Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference, and Poets and Scholars Summer Writers Retreat at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. She is the recipient of the Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship from Bread Loaf and Voices of Color Fellowship (Second Place) from Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She has also given several poetry readings and conversations, including Poet Talk, the Wild and Precious Reading Series, and The Writer's Center. Moreover, she is the author of Good Girl (poetry micro-chapbook), editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering, and the co-editor of seven books: Mothering Community, and Friendship; Travellin' Mama; Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization; Mothers and Daughters, Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering; Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture; and Caribbean without Borders: Literature, Language, and Culture. Hoping to increase the visibility of poetry by BIPOC authors, she is the creator of the Smith Silva Reading Challenge. Dorsía Smith Silva has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature and Language. She is on social media at @DSmithSilva. Her website is https://dorsiasmithsilva.com.