Bianca Rae Messinger is a poet and translator living and working in Buffalo, NY. She is the author of the long poem The Land Was V There (Poetry Will Be Made By All, 2014) and the chapbook The Love of God (Inpatient Press, 2016). Her chapbook parallel bars was the winner of the 2021 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize. Her translations of South American authors have been published for the Berlin Bienniale, Monster House Press, among others. She writes for ramona (Buenos Aires)