LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE APPEARS IN MY BATHROOM MIRROR
“Guadalupe tells me to pull it together! Time to chingona up, mija! / She palms my red nail polish and adorns her nails with OPI’s drop it like it’s hawt.”
Christiana Castillo
Christiana Castillo (she/ella) is a Mexican-Brasilian-American poet, educator, cultural worker, and gardener born in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, raised in Southeastern Michigan, and currently based out of Nashville, TN. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Epiphany Magazine, Room Magazine, Pinch Journal, The Detroit Metro Times, The Chicago Reader, among others. Her poetry chapbook, Crushed Marigold, was published in 2020 with Flower Press. Castillo has had residencies and fellowships with Room Project, insideOut Literary Arts, Voices of Our Nations, Disquiet International, and Casa Na Ilha.