Brooklyn born and Baltimore based, Taína is a proud Higuayagua Taíno writer from the Puerto Rican Diaspora on a mission to write her people back into history. Her writing explores ancestral language, memory, re-imagined Taíno mythologies, and the delightful peculiarities of big family life. Her short story "As I am Yours: A Love Story" was a semi-finalist for the 2025 Chatanqua Janus Prize. Her writing can be found in the Yellow Arrow Journal, and the Forward to Hiwatahia: Hekexi Taíno Language Dictionary. At present she is a 3rd year Fellow in The University of Maryland College Park's MFA in Creative Writing Fiction program.