Celine Aenlle-Rocha is an Afro-Latina writer based in New York City, where she attended Columbia University for her MFA in Fiction. Her work is published or forthcoming in Joyland, Nimrod International Journal, Puerto del Sol, Tahoma Literary Review, The Acentos Review, and others. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, and residencies at Art Farm and the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts. She teaches writing at Columbia University and Writopia Lab.