Luivette Resto was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, but proudly raised in The Bronx. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her commitment to higher education has her teaching English at Citrus College and Mt. San Antonio College. Her poems have been published in Latino Today, Mija Magazine, Harpur Palate, The Furnace Review, and Falling Star Magazine. She lives in Glendora, California, with her husband two children.