Esther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and grew up in New York. A 2015 Poets House Emerging Poet and Queens Council on the Arts Fellow, she has poems published in or forthcoming in Adroit, The Cortland Review, Crazyhorse, Copper Nickel, Guernica, Memorious, Permafrost, Vinyl, and elsewhere. She teaches in the English Department at Queens College, CUNY. You can read more of her work listed at estherlinpoems.wordpress.com.