Crystal AC Salas was selected as a winner of the Alta California Chapbook Prize for her book Grief Logic. She is a Xicanx poet, essayist, educator, and community organizer. She was born and raised in Ventura County as well as the San Fernando Valley, which is where she lives currently. She recently completed her MFA in Poetry at UC Riverside where she also provided arts and storytelling outreach as a Gluck fellow and Along the Chaparral fellow. Presently, she is a writing coach and community poetry workshop facilitator at the Moorpark College Writing Center, and serves as a poetry editor at BreakBread Magazine. Her work has appeared in Northwest Review, [PANK] Magazine, Chaparral Poetry, The Acentos Review, Inscape Magazine and others.