Vickie Vértiz’s writing can be found in Huizache, Bozalta, and The Coiled Serpent anthology from Tia Chucha Press. Her poetry collection was a 2016 Andrés Montoya Book Prize finalist. A seven-time VONA participant, Vickie’s poems were chosen by Natalie Diaz for the 2016 University of Arizona Poetry Center Summer Residency.