Sonia Gutiérrez is the author of Spider Woman / La Mujer Araña (Olmeca Press, 2013), Dreaming with Mariposas, winner of the Tomás Rivera Book Award 2021, and co-editor for The Writer’s Response (Cengage Learning, 2016). She teaches critical thinking and writing, and women’s gender and sexuality studies. Her bilingual poetry collection, Paper Birds / Pájaros de papel, is forthcoming in 2022. Presently, she is returning to her manuscript, Sana Sana Colita de Rana, working on her first picture book, The Adventures of a Burrito Flying Saucer, and teaching in cyberland.