Cindy Williams Gutiérrez is a poet, playwright, producer, and educator. Her work is inspired by the silent and silenced voices of history, herstory and her own story. In 2022, she co-produced her choreopoem In the Name of Forgotten Women, which was acclaimed by Portland’s Willamette Week as “a vibrant call for action.” Cindy’s poetry collection, Inlay with Nacre: The Names of Forgotten Women, was awarded the 2018 Willow Books Editor’s Choice Poetry Selection and a 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Cindy received the 2017 Oregon Book Award for Drama for Words That Burn. She was selected by Poets & Writers Magazine as a 2014 Notable Debut Poet for the small claim of bones, which placed second in the 2015 International Latino Book Awards.