Shauna Barbosa is a poet from Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author of the poetry collection Cape Verdean Blues (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Society of America, PBS Newshour, Literary Hub, Lenny Letter, and many others. She is a 2018 Disquiet International Luso-American fellowship recipient. Shauna received her MFA from Bennington College in Vermont and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.