Brenda Cárdenas has authored Trace (Red Hen Press), winner of the 2023 Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry and silver winner of Foreword Review’s Indie Poetry Prize; Boomerang (Bilingual Press); and three chapbooks. She also co-edited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest. Her poems have been published in such venues as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, Braving the Body, and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Anthology. Cárdenas has served as Milwaukee’s Poet Laureate and is Professor Emerita at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMANS & NATURE:
- “Ofrenda de Otoño,” a poem in Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature (Humans & Nature Press, 2026).
- “Zacuanpapalotls,” a poem in Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations—Vol. 3, Partners (Humans & Nature Press, 2021).
From Minding Nature:
- “Cornflowers” (which also appeared in Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations—Vol. 4, Persons (Humans & Nature Press, 2021).
