Cristina J. Baptista is a first-generation Portuguese-American writer and educator whose work is forthcoming or has appeared in New Millennium Writings, Adanna, DASH, The Cortland Review, Structo, Right Hand Pointing, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Fordham University and teaches in Connecticut. In 2014, she was a 38th Voyager—one of 85 people in the world selected to travel on the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, an 1841 wooden whaleship that is the last remaining one in the world—as well as documenter and poet of the Portuguese immigrant experience aboard whaleships.