Yalitza Ferreras is a Dominican American writer whose first language is Spanish; she writes in English and dreams in both. She has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State University. Her forthcoming novels explore creative manifestations of the paths not taken, those of an ambitious visual artist and a fervent geologist. She considers her existence as a writer the ultimate resistance especially as an Afro-Latinx woman of color—representation matters.