María Fernanda (two first names) is an early-career poet whose poems and translations appear in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext (forthcoming), The Wide Shore, Kweli Journal, and elsewhere. Featuring at The Brooklyn Museum, The Ecuadorian American Cultural Center, MoMaPS1, The Phoenix Art Museum, and more, María Fernanda has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Callaloo Writers Workshop, and VONA/Voices of Our Nation. She is the founder of Candela Writers Workshop, designed to support Black-Latinx poets through the preservation and the advancement of Black-Latinx literary work. María Fernanda is a Black Ecuadorian American and an adoptee with a cultural background branching to Louisiana, Texas, and (a native of) Washington D.C.