Ayling Zulema Dominguez is a poet, mixed media artist, and youth arts educator from The Bronx, reconnecting to indigenous roots in México and Republica Dominicana. Grounded in the poetics of anticolonialism, their art and writing ask who we are at our most free, and what it might take to arrive there. They were a 2023 Prufer Poetry Prize Finalist and received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize.