Clayre Benzadَn lives in Florida. She is currently a second-year MFA student at the University of Miami and Broadsided Presss Instagram editor. She has been published by "The Acentos Review", "Hobart", "QA Poetry", "SERIAL Magazine", "HerStry", "Poetry Breakfast", "SurVision", etc., and awarded the 2019 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for her poem "Linguistic Rewilding". This is her first book of poetry.