CHRISTINA OLIVARES is the author of FUTURE BOTANIC (Get Fresh Books), NO MAP OF THE EARTH INCLUDES STARS (winner of the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press Book Prize) and INTERRUPT (a Belladonna* Collaborative chaplet). Recent poetry has been published by the Academy of American Poets and shown at Lincoln Center: Working Intersections (video) and recent nonfiction has been published in BOMB and Lambda Literary. Olivares is a doctoral candidate in education (Teachers College 2025) and a queer American-Cuban from the Bronx. Olivares believes in the abolition of poverty and of the carceral state and in the radical, joyous and unfixed project of imagining our futures.

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Thrilled to announce that FUTURE BOTANIC, years in the making/dreaming, is available for order here via Get Fresh Books!