Jeannine Marie Pitas is a teacher, writer, and Spanish-English literary translator from Buffalo, NY currently residing in Pittsburgh and teaching at St. Vincent College. She is the author of one previous collection of poems, Things Seen and Unseen (Mosaic Press, 2019) and the translator or co-translator of nine books by various Latin American poets. She is Spanish translation editor for Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry and has contributed work to such publications as National Catholic Reporter, US Catholic, The Christian Century, Beltway Poetry Quarterly and The Paris Review. She has been a legal guardian to three young immigrants from Guatemala applying for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status in the US, and she believes firmly in the right of people to choose where they live.