Pena, Dorina: - Dorina Pena was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and spent most of her adult life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to Philadelphia, PA in 2015 when her husband got a job at Temple University as a physics professor. As a light-skinned black woman who has lived in the North and the South, she has experienced race in many different ways, which has given her a unique perspective in her writing. Dorina earned a B.A. in English Writing/poetry from the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing/poetry from Carlow University in 2011. Her first chapbook, Leaving the Tree, was published by Monkeyman Press in 2011. Her poetry has appeared in the following publications: Philadelphia Stories, in seven of the Voices from the Attic anthologies, the Pittsburgh City Paper, Girls with Glasses, Flare: The Flagler Review, and the Pittsburgh Poetry Review. She currently resides in Philadelphia, with her husband Mike, where she teaches community poetry classes and writes full-time.