Originally from San Juan Puerto Rico, Urayoán Noel teaches at NYU and at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas. Noel’s most recent books are Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona, 2015) and In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014). Urayoán was a contributor to Volume 7 of Packington Review.