Amanda Galvan Huynh (she/her) is a Xicana writer and educator from Texas. She is the author Where My Umbilical is Buried (2023), a chapbook Songs of Brujería (2019), and Co-Editor of Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics (2019). Her writing has been supported by fellowships and scholarships from MacDowell, Storyknife, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and others. She serves as the Managing Editor of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.