Lissa BatistaLissa Batista is a Brazilian born poet living in Miami, Florida among iguanas and summer hurricanes. Batista earned a Bachelor's Degree in English from Florida International University in 2016 and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, 2023. She has publishe poems and essays in Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, Passengers Journal, Drunk Monkeys, Islandia, West Trade Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Bellingham Review and a few others. Batista was nominated for both Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize, and a semi-finalist in the 2023 New Women's Voiced Chapbook Competition for Finishing Line Press. Read More Read Less