Cristina Pérez Díaz is a Puerto Rican poet and translator. She has a PhD in Classics from Columbia University, is co-founder of the literary magazine The Puerto Rico Review, works as Chief Editor at Centro Press (The Center for Puerto Rican Studies) and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. Her book From the Founding of the Country is forthcoming from Winter Editions in 2025.