Leslie Sainz

The daughter of Cuban exiles, Leslie Sainz is the recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Yale Review, New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, AGNI, jubilat, Narrative, and elsewhere. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, she’s received scholarships, fellowships, and honors from CantoMundo, Miami Writers Institute, the Adroit Journal, and Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University. She is the managing editor of the New England Review.