Viviana Prado-Núñez is an author, theatre-maker, and teaching artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in a hospital with a 4.0 Google review rating and a view of the ocean. She has never seen Star Wars, eaten a grasshopper, or written a poem without the letter ‘e,’ though she hopes to do all three of those things in the future. Previous credits include winning the 2017 Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, longlisting for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award, and appearing on the New York Public Library’s recommended reading list for 2020 National Caribbean American Heritage Month for her novel, The Art of White Roses. She has also developed plays with The Center at West Park, Echo Theater Company’s National Young Playwrights in Residence program, Corkscrew Theater Festival, and The Parsnip Ship–and is also an alumnus of CWP’s Teaching Artist Project along with having done educational work in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago on behalf of the Jamaica Library Service and the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. She is currently based in NYC. BA: Columbia University, 2020. (www.vivianapradonunez.com)