The Dominican-American poet, writer and translator, Alba Cruz-Hacker, is the author of No Honey for Wild Beasts (2008). A Pushcart Prize nominee, she was awarded the 2007 UCR Poet Laureate and the 2007 Tomas Rivera Endowment Poetry Selection. Her creative and scholarly work has been published throughout the Caribbean, Canada and the United States, including The Caribbean Writer, Canadian Woman Studies, Spillway Review, DMQ Review, Pacific Review, Poetry Magazine (Senior Editor’s Choice), in the anthology Bear Flag Republic, edited by Gary Young, and in the Hispanic volume of the American Encyclopedia of Ethnic Literature, among others.