Born and raised in México, Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador is a poet, editor, educator, and interpreter-translator. She earned her BA in English Literature from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee. Sandra Dolores has earned multiple awards and recognitions; most recently, she was awarded the 2025 Allman Prize for Poetry by the Bellevue Literary Review. She is a Tin House, Community of Writers, British Centre for Literary Translation, and Letras Latinas fellow. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in EPOCH, Punto de Partida, The McNeese Review, Casapaís, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She co-founded the University Network of Women Writers. Lola is a poetry reader for Only Poems and a workshop reader for Tin House.