Lin Flores (they/she) lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah as a full-time poet and creative writing student. They are an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of New Orleans and a reader for the Bayou Magazine. Her debut poetry collection, Reflections While Living in Utah, was a bestseller for both 2021 & 2022 at Under The Umbrella—Utah’s LGBTQ+ bookstore. In 2023, Lin won the Andrea Saunders Gereighty / Academy of American Poets Award. In 2024, Lin became a poetry fellow with Roots. Wounds. Words. When Flores isn’t writing, she is volunteering her time with Plumas Colectiva, a collective of Latinx poets & artists. With their B.A. in Education, Lin teaches at The McGillis School.