Brenda Cárdenas is the author of Boomerang (Bilingual Press, 2009) and the chapbooks Bread of the Earth / The Last Colors with Roberto Harrison (Decentralized Publications, 2011); Achiote Seeds/Semillas de Achiote with Critstina García, Emmy Pérez, and Gabriela Erandi Rico (2008); and From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (Momotombo Press, 2005). She also co-edited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2017) and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press, 2001). Cárdenas’ poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Latino Poetics: The Art of Poetry, POETRY, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, the Library of Congress’ Spotlight on U.S. Hispanic Writers, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, and many others. Cárdenas served as the Milwaukee Poet Laureate from 2010-2012 and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.