Kristal Uribe-Cifuentes is a writer, translator and performer who lives and works between Dosquebradas, Colombia and Queens, NY. She received a BFA in theater and politics from The New School and is currently pursuing an MFA in nonfiction writing and literary translation at Columbia University. Her work explores the implications of private memory and its fabulations, the tinsel and agony that may be observed in the experience of womanhood, and the way we waltz around our vectors of abuse.