Catalina Marie Cantú is a multi-genre writer, interdisciplinary artist, and Jack Straw Fellow.  Her writing has been published in La Bloga, Poetry on Buses, Seattle Poetic Grid, Raven Chronicles, and The Inspired Poet. Catalina holds a B.A. in La Raza Studies and a J.D. from the University of Washington, where she was a co-founding member of MEChA and Teatro del Piojo. As a volunteer attorney, she managed the King County Bar Association Bilingual Spanish Legal Clinic. She is a co-founding member and current President of La Sala: Latinx Artists’ Network. Catalina is currently finishing her braided essay collection and her first YA novel.