Maya Doig-Acuña is a New York-based writer, originally from Brooklyn. She is the nonfiction editor of new literary publication, Double Space Magazine, and has been published in Harlem Focus, Latino Rebels, and Duende Literary Journal. She has also received support from Bread Loaf School of English and Tin House Workshop. As an ACHP-Smithsonian Cultural Heritage Fellow, Maya is currently at work on an oral history project on Black Latinx communities in Washington, D.C.