Esther Lin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for twenty-one years. She is a 2020 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and is the author of The Ghost Wife, winner of the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Indiana Review, The Missouri Review Online, Pleiades, Triquarterly, and elsewhere. A 2017–2019 Wallace Stegner Fellow, she currently organizes for the Undocupoets.