Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez was awarded the 2018 Willow Books Editor's Choice Poetry Selection and a 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship for Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women. She was selected by Poets & Writers Magazine as a 2014 Notable Debut Poet for the small claim of bones, which placed second in the 2015 International Latino Book Awards. Cindy received the 2017 Oregon Book Award for Drama for Words That Burn. In 2022, she co-produced her choreopoem, In the Name of Forgotten Women, which was acclaimed by Portland's Willamette Week as "a vibrant call for action."Cindy has taught poetry to youth in every grade from K-12 in Washington and Oregon and is currently a teaching artist at Paschal Sherman Indian School on the Colville Reservation. She is cofounder of El Grupo de '08, a Northwest collaborative-artists' salon; Los Porteños, Portland's Latinx writers' collective; and the Confluence Poets in Washington State's Methow Valley. Along with an MBA and an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute, Cindy earned an MFA from the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast Program with concentrations in Mesoamerican poetics and creative collaboration. Cindy is inspired by the silent and silenced voices of history, herstory and her own story. She dreams of the day when history will expand into our story.