Kimberly Vargas Agnese makes her home in the smoggy California Central Valley. Kimberly spends her time cultivating a young food forest called Meadow Arc, praying and writing advocacy poetry. Her writing appears in "Anacua Literary Arts Journal," "The Seventh Wave," "Rappahannock Review" and "Awakened Voices," among others. Kimberly's full-length collection, "Red String on a Saguaro Cactus" was named a finalist for the 2022 André s Montoya Poetry Prize, awarded biannually by the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. To read more of her work, please visit www.kimberlyvargasagnese.com.