Ghost apples

Luisa A. Igloria is the author of Caulbearer (Immigrant Writing Series Prize, Black Lawrence Press, 2024), Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Co-Winner, 2019 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Prize), 13 other books, and 4 chapbooks. She is lead editor of The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders (Paloma Press, 2025), along with co-editors Aileen Cassinetto and David Hassler; and lead editor of Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the U.S. (Paloma Press, 2023) along with co-editors Aileen Cassinetto and Jeremy S. Hoffman. Originally from Baguio City, she is the Louis I. Jaffe and University Professor of English and Creative Writing at Old Dominion University’s MFA Creative Writing Program. Luisa is the 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020-22), Emerita. During her term, the Academy of American Poets awarded her a 2021 Poet Laureate Fellowship.