María M. Burgos Carradero (she/they) writes from Puerto Rico, with and for what aches, what vanishes, and what insists on returning. Their stories linger on the edges of archipelagoes, where the magical is not escape but residue, survival, and politics. An editor at RicanWritings at CENTRO, María tends to narratives that are both intimate and collective, writing toward those who labor, who disappear, who endure. Their current work includes a novel on black queer Caribbean girlhood.