Born and raised in México, Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador is a poet, editor, scholar, and interpreter-translator. She earned her BA in Modern English Literature from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she received the 2022 Award for Best Dissertation, and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, where she wrote the institution’s first-ever bilingual thesis. Sandra Dolores has earned multiple awards and recognitions; most recently, she was awarded the 2025 Allman Prize for Poetry by Bellevue Literary Review and was a finalist for the 2026 Scotti Merrill Emerging Writers Awards from Key West Literary Seminar. She is a Tin House, Community of Writers, British Centre for Literary Translation, and Letras Latinas fellow. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in EPOCH, The McNeese Review, Anomalous Press, Huizache, and elsewhere. Her poems have been nominated for Best New Poets 2025 and the AWP Intro to Journals Awards. She also co-founded the University Network of Women Writers. Currently, she is a poetry reader for Only Poems, and a workshop reader for Tin House. Lola is pursuing a PhD degree somewhere in the world.

Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador nació y creció en México. Es poeta, editora, académica e intérprete-traductora. Es Licenciada en Letras Modernas Inglesas por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, en donde ganó el premio a mejor tesis en 2022 y Maestra en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Tennessee, en donde escribió la primera tesis bilingüe de la institución. Sandra Dolores ha sido acreedora de diversos premios y reconocimientos literarios; recientemente ganó el premio 2025 Allman Prize for Poetry de la revista Bellevue Literary Review y fue finalista del premio 2026 Scotti Merrill Emerging Writers Awards del seminario Key West Literary. Es becaria de Tin House, Community of Writers, British Centre for Literary Translation y Letras Latinas. Su trabajo ha sido o será publicado en Punto de Partida, Huizache y Casapaís, entre otros. Sus poemas han sido nominados a los reconocimientos Best New Poets 2025 y AWP Intro Journals Awards. Es co-fundadora de la Red Universitaria de Mujeres Escritoras. Actualmente, es lectora de poesía en la revista Only Poems y lectora de taller en Tin House. Lola cursa su Doctorado en algún lugar del mundo.