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Ayendy Bonifacio (he/him/his) is a Dominican American writer, poet, and scholar whose work explores memory, migration, race, and the legacies of colonialism in the Americas. He is the author of Dique Dominican; To the River, We Are Migrants: Poems/Poemas; Bless Me, Papi (forthcoming, 2026); and the scholarly monograph Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the U.S. Press, 1855–1901. His second collection of poems, Ríos Are for Chivos and Eternity will be released in August 2027. Bonifacio’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other outlets. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Toledo in Ohio where he lives with his partner and daughter.
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