Nina C. Peláez is a poet, educator, and cultural producer based in Maui, Hawaiʻi whose work explores themes of adoption, dislocation, diasporic identity, mythology, and ecology. A Best New Poets nominee, her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Electric Literature, Rattle, Willow Springs, Pleiades and swamp pink, among others. She was awarded the Coniston Prize by Radar Poetry and has been supported by Tin House, Yaddo, AWP’s Writer to Writer Program, and the Key West Literary Seminars. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and is a mentor for The Adroit Journal. Follow her on Instagram @ninacpelaez.