Michelle Valladares
Michelle Yasmine Valladares is the author of Nortada, The North Wind (Global City Press). Her second book of poems, The First Map of the New World is forthcoming. Her poems have been published in The Literary Review, Upstreet Journal and she was included in Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond, (Norton). She is a Lecturer in English at The City College of New York.