Ayendy Bonifacio (he/him/his) received a Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University in May 2019 and is currently an associate professor of literature of the Americas at the University of Toledo, where he teaches and writes about the Black Atlantic, hemispheric literature, Latinx studies, and print culture. Bonifacio is the author of four books that encompass poetry, memoir, fiction, and literary scholarship. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), American Periodicals, ASAP/Journal, Prose Studies, The Black Scholar, American Literary Realism, and J19, among others.