Shuly Xóchitl Cawood is an award-winning writer and the author of the short story collection, A Small Thing to Want (Press 53, 2020), the poetry collection, Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning (Mercer University Press, 2021), 52 Things I Wish I Could Have Told Myself When I Was 17 (Cimarron Books, 2018), and The Going and Goodbye: a memoir (Platypus Press, 2017). She has an MFA from Queens University, and her writing has been published in The New York Times, Brevity, and The Sun, among others. You can learn more about her at www.shulycawood.com [2].