Marisa Tirado is a Latina poet, writer, and educator.

In 2022 Marisa published Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either with Texas Review Press. The collection on Latinx identity and language loss was featured in The Atlantic, VOGUE, Forbes, HipLatina, and The Poetry Foundation. She is represented by Watkins/Loomis Literary Agency. 

Marisa studied poetry and literary translation at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems are featured in The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, and Triquarterly, among other literary journals. Marisa currently teaches writing at University of Colorado-Boulder. Follow her on Instagram at @marisatirado.