Auro­ra Levins Morales is a cuir Ashke­nazi Boricua writer of poet­ry, essays, and fic­tion. A child of black­list­ed com­mu­nist par­ents, she grew up immersed in social jus­tice move­ments and the poet­ry of lib­er­a­tion, and came into pub­lic voice as part of the col­lec­tive erup­tions of rad­i­cal art of the 1970s and ​’80s. She is the author of nine books, includ­ing Med­i­cine Sto­ries, Kin­dling, Reme­dios, and Silt. Her poet­ry is wide­ly used in syn­a­gogues and church­es, in schools and at ral­lies, paint­ed on walls and recit­ed at wed­dings, trans­lat­ed into sev­en lan­guages and reprint­ed in dozens of antholo­gies. After forty years in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area, she now lives at Fin­ca la Llu­via, an agro-poet­ry project in the west­ern moun­tains of Boriken, also known as Puer­to Rico.The Sto­ry of What is Bro­ken is Whole: An Auro­ra Levins Morales Read­er will be pub­lished in 2024 by Duke Uni­ver­si­ty Press. Find her on Patre­on and at www​.auro​ralevins​morales​.com.