Marisol CortezMarisol Cortez is a self-described mentally-intense, mixed-blood Xicana weirdo rooted in San Antonio. Cortez is currently the Executive Editor of Deceleration, an online journal of environmental justice thought and praxis for the South Texas borderlads. In 2020 she published her debut novel Luz at Midnight (FlowerSong Press 2020), which won the Texas Institute of Letter's 2021 Sergio Troncoso Award for First Book of Fiction and the 2022 Creative Book prize from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. She's also the author of I Call on the Earth (Double Drop Press 2019), a chapbook of documentary poetry, and "Making Displacement Visible: A Case Study Analysis of the 'Mission Trail of Tears, '" which together bear witness to the forced removal of Mission Trails Mobile Home Community. Other poems and prose have appeared in Mutha Magazine, About Place Journal, Orion, Vice Canada, Caigibi, Metafore Magazine, Outsider Poetry, Voices de la Luna, and La Voz de Esperanza, among other anthologies and journals. The Bird Church (Finishing Line Press, 2025) is her latest collection. Read More Read Less