Michelle Brittan Rosado earned her MFA from California State University, Fresno, and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing & Literature at University of Southern California as a Wallis Annenberg Endowed Fellow. She has received awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Vermont Studio Center, and USC's Center for Transpacific Studies. Her work is published or forthcoming in literary journals including Calyx, Crab Creek Review, Los Angeles Review, Nimrod, Poet Lore, and Quarterly West, as well as the anthology Time You Let Me In. A native of San Francisco, she now lives in Long Beach.