Carissa Cardenas is a poet from Orlando, Florida who studied at Valencia College and the University of Central Florida, earning a Bachelor’s in Interdisciplinary Studies. Carissa’s dream to be published first came true with the notification that her work was selected for the Phoenix magazine’s 2019 edition, to which she was again published in 2020. Her work has also been featured in the anthology Finders Keepers published by Poets Choice and in the upcoming anthology The Writer’s Journal Vol 2: Doors. Her dream is to spread her passion for the beauty and power that words hold through teaching and raising her own children.