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Amanda Torres (AT) is a writer, educator, and arts administrator from Chicago whose writing focuses on queer family, latine futurity, and social imaginaries. Their poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in Not Your Papi’s Utopia, The Acentos Review, Breakbeat Poets, and At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships. Over the course of two decades, they co-founded a youth literary arts organization in Boston, directed The National Incubator for Community Engaged Poets, and have taught and developed creative, justice-oriented events, installations, workshops, and curricula for young people, artists, and educators across the nation. They hold an M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MFA in Poetry from Randolph College. Currently, they live in Rhode Island with their wife, kiddo & old dog. A sci-fi nerd, player of games, serious swimmer, sometimes singer, auntie-extraordinaire, you can find them at the beach or at the bookstore.