Rio Cortez is a Pushcart-nominated poet, who has received fellowships from Poet's House, Cave Canem and Canto Mundo Foundations. She was a recipient of the Sarah Lawrence College Lucy Grealy Prize in Poetry and the 2012 Poets & Writers Amy Award. She is a graduate of the MFA program at New York University and co-founder of the Good Times Collective. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including Cortland Review, Prairie Schooner, Huizache, Sugar House Review, and Chorus: A Literary Mixtape. Born and raised in Salt Lake City, she daylights in Children's Publishing. Rio lives in Queens, NY. Cave Canem 2016 Residency Winner.