Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a fronteriza from El Paso, Texas. Her most recent collection is My Perfect Cognate (Copper Canyon Press Spring/Summer 2025). Winner of Yale University's Windham Campbell Prize, her work has been supported by the Poetry and Lannan Foundations. She teaches in the undergraduate and MFA Creative Writing Programs at the University of South Florida where she is Director of the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library.