Marina Carreira is a Luso-American writer from the Ironbound area of Newark, NJ, a working-class, immigrant section of Brick City. Since reading her first poetry book The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson at age 12, Marina has looked to poetry as a lens to the world in all its white supremacist, patriarchal, misogynist and classist glory. Marina graduated Montclair State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and holds a MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University. She is curator and co-host of "Brick City Speaks", a genrefluid monthly reading series and open mic in Newark at the Living Incubator Performance Space in the Gateway Project Spaces. Marina works as a poet in the Dodge Poetry Visiting Poets in Schools program. Aside from poetry, her interests include feminist activism, queer theory, social and economic equality, and visual/fine art. Marina's work is featured in Paterson Literary Review, The Acentos Review, The Writing Disorder, Naugatuck River Review, Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora: An Anthology, The Fem, Rock & Sling, Bluestockings Magazine, THE FEM, Paper Nautilus, Piff Magazine, Cahoodaloodaling, LUNA LUNA Magazine, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, The Harpoon Review, among others. She lives in Union, NJ with her two daughters.