Adelina Rose Gowans is a 17-year-old second-generation Costa Rican/Honduran-American writer and artist from the rural Southeast. She is a junior at the South Carolina Governor's School For the Arts and Humanities, a 2020 YoungArts Winner in Writing, first place winner in the Leyla Beban Young Writers Foundation 1,000 words for 1,000$ contest, second place winner of the Hollins University Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, Art Director at Faces of Feminism Media, and the recipient of eleven Scholastic Art & Writing awards including national gold and silver medals. Her work has been previously published or is forthcoming in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Minnesota Review, Storyscape Journal, Atlas + Alice, Barely South Review, Cargoes, and elsewhere. More of her personal projects can be seen at https://www.adelinarose.me/.