Sr Álida is a writer and educator whose work appears in Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (DWA Press, 2021), Southern Humanities Review (Summer 2021, Vol. 54.2), Orison Anthology / Best Spiritual Literature 2022, Teach For America’s One Day Virtual Magazine, and When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent (University of Arizona Press, 2023). She completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. When not writing or teaching, she’s likely daydreaming about blood orange sunsets.