Beatriz Pugeda is a Boston-based writer, editor, and project coordinator at an independent bookseller. She recently graduated with her BA in English from Boston College, where she received several departmental awards and distinctions for her published fiction and poetry on campus. Originally from Gig Harbor, Washington, Beatriz was raised under the pacific northwest rain by a small community of mighty Filipino immigrants. They are her sunshine. It is because of their undying support from the other side of the country that she can follow her dream of becoming a writer in the big city. Her latest projects include editing for the local literary journal, The Quinobequin Review, and fulfilling neighborhood requests for free, anonymous, typewritten poetry.