Brazilian born Esther Lin is an undocumented poet and the author of Cold Thief Place(Alice James Books, 2025) and The Ghost Wife (Poetry Society of America, 2018), and co-editor of Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (HarperCollins, 2024). Lin is a critic at large for Poetry Northwest, and co-organize the Undocupoets, which promotes the work of undocumented poets and raises consciousness about the structural barriers that they face in the literary community. She was a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and her work has been supported by Cité Internationale,, the Poetry Society of America, and Poets House, among other organizations. She won a Pushcart Prize in 2024, and was featured in Best New Poets 2022.
