Isabel Guzzardo Tamargo attained her Ph.D. from the Graduate Program of Literatures in English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her book project explores representations of maroons in contemporary queer Caribbean literature. She has published peer-reviewed articles and reviews in Small Axe, 80 Grados, Confluencia, The University of the West Indies’ Social and Economic Studies, and others. She is an editor for The Puerto Rico Review and the Project Manager for the Mellon-funded project Bridging the Divides, which supports interdisciplinary study groups on Puerto Rican Studies.