Paloma Martinez-Cruz, professor of Latinx cultural studies at the Ohio State University, is the author of Food Fight! Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace (2019) and Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East LA to Anahuac (2011). She is the editor of A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Saúl García-López (Routledge). Her prose and poetry have appeared in Nerter, Voces, PALABRA, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. She produces Onda Latinx Ohio to showcase Latinx expressive culture in the Midwest.
