Lina M. Ferreira C-V graduated from the University of Iowa with a Creative Nonfiction Writing MFA in 2012, and a Literary Translation MFA the following year. She was born in Bogota, Colombia, and is currently working as a visiting assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Ohio State University. Her work has been featured in a few journals, including The Bellingham Review, Arts & Letters, Brevity and the Chicago Review. She won the Iron Horse Review's Discovered Voices Award, 2009's Best of the Net Award, and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes for publications in Wag's Review and Anomalous Press.