Luisa A. Igloria is the author of Caulbearer (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Southern Illinois University Press, 2020), and The Buddha Wonders if She Is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, 2018), as well as twelve other books and four chapbooks. Originally from Baguio City, she makes her home in Norfolk, Virginia, where she was the state’s twentieth poet laureate and is a professor in Old Dominion University’s MFA Creative Writing Program.