Born and raised in México, Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador (she/ella) is a poet, editor, and interpreter-translator. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree with honors in Modern English Literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and, currently, she is an MFA student in Creative Writing at The University of Tennessee, where she teaches Creative Writing and First-Year Composition. Sandra Dolores has earned multiple awards and recognitions. She is an Under the Volcano, British Centre for Literary Translation, Community of Writers, and Letras Latinas fellow. Her work has been published both print and online in Aster Lit, Punto de Partida, FlowerSong Press, The McNeese Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is working on her first poetry collection titled Carnassial and is the nonfiction editor for Grist Journal.