Raina J. León, Ph.D., is Black, Afro-Boricua, and from Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape ancestral lands). She is a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Macondo, Anaphora, and the Obsidian Foundation, and the author of black god mother this body, Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, sombra: (dis)locate, and the chapbooks profeta without refuge and Areyto to Atabey: Essays on the Mother(ing) Self. She publishes across forms in visual art, poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and scholarly work. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review, an online quarterly international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. Her latest work, black god mother this body (Black Freighter Press), is a collection that includes prose poems, collages, and memories about motherhood, particularly Black motherhood, in all its complexity.