Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a poet and translator born in Colombia and raised in New York City. She has travelled through Latin America and Europe, and in 2013, she spent two months in Spain as a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow in Poetry. Luisa was the 2014 John K. Walsh Residency Fellow (a literary fellowship supported by the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the Anderson Center at Tower View) and the 2014 Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellow at Ragdale. She holds an MFA from Boston University and has been widely published.