Andrea Blancas Beltran is from El Paso, Texas. Her work has recently been selected for publication in Scalawag, About Place Journal, A Dozen Nothing, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Fog Machine, Gramma, & others. Her chapbook Re- was published by Red Bird Chapbooks in 2018. (un)learning, a collaborative project with Melissa Matthewson, was published by Artifact Press in 2016.