Urayoán Noel is the author of 10 books of poetry, most recently Transversal (University of Arizona Press, 2021), a New York Public Library Book of the Year, and the hybrid Isabela Notebook/Cuaderno de Isabela (La Impresora, 2025). Other works include the award-winning critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press, 2014) and the ongoing site-based improvisational project Wokitokiteki. A National Translation Award finalist, Noel received a 2025 NYSCA Support for Artists Grant to translate traslaciones (2015) by Wingston González for Ugly Duckling Presse and has also translated adjacent islands/islas adyacentes by Nicole Cecilia Delgado (UDP/DoubleCross/La Impresora, 2022). Originally from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, Urayoán Noel lives in the Bronx and teaches at NYU.