Marta Lucía Vargas

Marta Lucía Vargas is a poet and a teacher. She is a founding member and senior editor of Aster(ix) Journal, a literary transnational feminist arts journal, and co-founder of WILL: Women in Literature in Letters. Currently, she serves as Managing and Content Editor for HTI Open Plaza, an online platform within the Hispanic Theological Initiative. Her poetry and creative nonfiction works have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion and Birth (Haymarket Books, 2023), The Lake Rises: poems to and for our bodies of water (Stockport Flats, 2013), and the chapbook For the Crowns of Your Head (Poets for Ayiti, 2010). Vargas has taught writing and literature at Hunter College and at New York Institute of Technology. She was the inaugural Poet-in-Residence for the Montclair Art Museum and serves as Poet-in-Residence for Bloomfield High School's What's Your Story program. Vargas holds an MFA from Drew University and allocates her time with her family in South Orange, New Jersey, and New York City.