Kyle Carrero Lopez is a Black Cuban-American poet born and raised in North Jersey. His poems are published or forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Poetry, Hobart, The Breakbeat Poets Volume IV: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Books, 2020), Grabbed (Beacon Press, 2020), and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, where he is a Program Fellow at NYFA and an MFA Candidate in poetry at NYU. Find him @kylelop3z