Regina Gort-Betances

Regina Gort-Betances is a retired chef who prefers thimbleberries to huckleberries. She grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where fiddleheads, chanterelles and skinny dips were abundant. She now lives in Puerto Rico, the island of her heritage and in the bounty of mango trees and sea turtle snorkeling. Regina's first collaborative poem was published in North Dakota Quarterly. She has been subsequently published in Rova Magazine, Deep Wild Journal and The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism. After the deaths of her two daughters and her father in the same year, Regina spent time living in a van with her husband and son. They traveled as they put their family back together. After time in rehab, years of therapy and writing, she found a grounded place to create from and a way to honor the legacy of her journey through grief. @reggieinrincon reginagort.com