Sara Borjas is a fourth-generation Chicana, a pocha, and a Fresno poet. Her debut collection of poetry, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2019. She is a 2017 Canto Mundo Fellow, the recipient of the 2015 Blue Mesa Poetry Prize, a 2013 Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Workshop Fellow, a 2016 Postgraduate Writers Conference Fellow and a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She teaches creative writing at UC Riverside.