Marilyn Ramirez
is a budding poet, writer, and former Editorial Fellow for The Poetry Lab. Her stories have appeared in Β‘Pa'lante!, The Plentitudes, Press Pause Press, and elsewhere. She has been a Harriet Williams Emerging Writer awardee by Literary Women Long Beach. Marilyn is the Fiction Editor for The Plentitudes and is currently working on a collection of short stories that contemplate womanhood, the body, Mexican Catholicism, and the power of blended language. Marilyn uses she/her pronouns.