Leslie Sainz is a first-generation Cuban American, born and raised in Miami. A CantoMundo Fellow, she received an undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Sainz was a writer in residence at the Hub City Writers Project and served as a Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University in 2018–2019.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Orisha Poems, poetry, in Winter 2019
- If for the Flies, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2017–2018