Melina Casados is a poet, community worker, and daughter of Central American immigrants with roots in North Carolina. She moved to New York to obtain her MFA in poetry at Brooklyn College, where she was a Rona Jaffe Found Fellowship recipient. Melina served as the poetry editor for Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing and taught at Brooklyn College before starting her current position at the Brooklyn Public Library. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Library Science at Queens College.