Amanda Alcántara is a Caribbean writer and journalist. She is the author of “Chula” (2019). Her creative writing and journalistic work has been featured in the anthology “Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA”; the poetry anthology “LatiNext”; and several media publications like Latino USA, Remezcla, Afroféminas, The San Francisco Chronicles, and others. In 2017, she obtained an MA from NYU in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is also a co-founder and former editor of La Galería Magazine. Alcántara is a Libra who loves exploring nature and being close to the sea.