Nina C. Peláez is a writer, curator, educator, and artist living on Maui, where she works as associate director of The Merwin Conservancy. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, The Adroit Journal, Poetry Northwest, Narrative, and others. Her debut chapbook, In the House of Men, won the 2026 Snowbound Chapbook Prize and will be published by Tupelo Press.