Mario Duarte is a Latinx writer born, raised and living in the US Midwest. He is an Academic Advisor at the University of Iowa and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems and short stories have appeared in aaduna, the Arachne Press, Carnival, Chicago Literati, Corazón Land Review, Hinchas de Poesía, Medusa’s Laugh, Rigorous, Slab, Huizache, RavensPerch, Steel Toe Review and Storyscape.