A Mexican American poet residing in California’s Central Valley, Kimberly Vargas Agnese draws from personal experience in her narrative and advocacy poetry. Her writing appears in SHIFT Magazine, Rappahannock Review, Awakened Voices and Anacua Literary Arts Journal, among others. In addition to writing poetry, Kimberly is cultivating a food forest named Meadow Arc and a pumpkin-colored golden retriever named Pollyanna. To read more of her work, please visit www.kimberlyvargasagnese.com.