From Stargazing in the Andes to Psychic Space Cats: Latin American and Latinx Women’s

Dr. Angela Acosta is a Mexican American poet and Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina. Her creative and academic work center on imagining possible worlds and preserving the cultural legacies of women writers. Her Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominated poetry has appeared in The Acentos Review, Copihue Poetry, Shoreline of Infinity, Eccentric Orbits and Star*Line. She is author of A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness (Red Ogre Review, 2023) and Fourth Generation Chicana Unicorn (Dancing Girl Press, 2024). She has published on female life-writing, poetry, and literary personas in Persona Studies, Ámbitos Feministas, and Feminist Modernist Studies.