Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez is from Vilches, Chile. Their novel in Spanish, La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas, 2016), follows three children who indirectly experience the trauma of the Pinochet military dictatorship in Chile. Their poetry has appeared in West Branch, The Malahat Review, Boulevard, BLOOM, Hobart, and other literary journals. They won the 2018 Boulevard Emerging Poets Prize and have received fellowships from the Lambda Writing Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices, The Center for Book Arts, and the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. They hold an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University and teach creative writing at Clark University.