Carla Sofia Ferreira is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants and a high school English teacher from Newark, New Jersey. Her poems live in Cotton Xenomorph, Poets Resist – Glass Poetry, Crab Fat Magazine, and amberflora, among other rad zines. Her debut chapbook, Ironbound Fados, is out with Ghost City Press in late May 2019. When not reading or grading papers, she is probably teaching her cat Moonshadow how to fetch.