GABRIEL RAMIREZ, author of If Pit Bulls Had a God, It’d be a Pit Bull is a queer Afro-Caribbean writer and educator. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal and a 2024-2025 CantoMundo Poetry Coalition Fellow. Gabriel has received support from The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, Miami Book Fair, The Watering Hole, and Callaloo. You can find their work in publications like Muzzle Magazine, Split This Rock’s The Quarry, Poetry Magazine, BOMB, Acentos Review, and others, as well as Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (Library of America 2024).