Christina Olivares is also the author of Petition, winner of YesYes Books' 2014 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Competition. She earned her MFA in Poetry from CUNY Brooklyn and her BA from Amherst College. She is the recipient of two Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grants and a 2008-2009 Teachers and Writers Collaborative Fellowship. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has participated in Bread Loaf and VONA writing workshops. She is a native of the Bronx and of Harlem.