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Leslie Sainz is a first generation Cuban American, born and raised in Miami, Florida. A 2019 National Poetry Series Finalist, she holds degrees in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Carnegie Mellon University. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, jubilat, Narrative, Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She’s received scholarships, fellowships, and honors from CantoMundo, the Miami Writers Institute, the Adroit Journal, and the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University, where she was a 2018-2019 Stadler Fellow. She is currently working on her first collection of poems.