Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. His honors include being named Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, the New Voices Award, and an NEA Fellowship to translate the poetry of his grandfather, Sotero Rivera Avilés. He is the author of six full-length poetry books. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and works as a principal investigator for El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña/The Puerto Rican Literature Project, an open-access digital portal that anyone can use to learn about and teach Puerto Rican poetry.