Sarah Gambito is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University. She is the author of the poetry collections Matadora (Alice James Books) and Delivered (Persea Books). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Field, Quarterly West, Fence and other journals. Her honors include the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets and Writers and grants and fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Urban Artists Initiative and The MacDowell Colony. She is co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization that promotes Asian American poetry.