Andrea Giugni (she/her) is a queer Venezuelan poet, editor, educator, and translator. Her work explores layers of distance and forms of knowing within the context of migration, ecology, chronic pain, and grief. She currently studies and teaches rhetoric and creative writing as an MFA student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also serves as an associate editor for the award-winning literary magazine Ninth Letter. She also assists in teaching Latine literature through the Latine Studies department. She lives, birdwatches, and knits in Urbana alongside her partner and their two cats, Salem and Pancake.