María Esquinca is a poet and journalist. She recently graduated with her M.F.A from the University of Miami, and was a 2020 Report for America corps member with Radio Bilingue. She was a News 21 fellow, and has interned at WLRN, The New York Times Student Journalism Institute and at Crain’s Detroit Business as a Dow Jones News Fund Business Reporting Intern. A fronteriza, she was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and grew up in El Paso, Texas, where she currently resides.