CHRISTINA OLIVARES is the author of FUTURE BOTANIC (Get Fresh Books, 2023 out now!), NO MAP OF THE EARTH INCLUDES STARS (winner of the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press Book Prize) and INTERRUPT (a Belladonna* Collaborative chaplet).

Olivares is a queer American-Cuban from the Bronx. She believes in the abolition of poverty and of the carceral state and in the radical project of imagining our liberation. She works as an educator.

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upcoming events

Thursday September 21, 2023: Please join me at a joint Get Fresh Books LLC + Ugly Duckling Presse reading with Mirene Arsanios, Lauren de Sá Naylor, and Mercy Tullis-Bukhari at KGB Bar at 7:30!

Friday September 29, 2023: Please join me at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe for a Friday Night feature set at 9 PM!

September 2023: Thrilled to announce that FUTURE BOTANIC, years in the making/dreaming, is available for order here via Get Fresh Books, LLC., who I am very proud and honored to collaborate with!!