Leeanna T. Torres is a native daughter of the American Southwest, with deep Indo-Hispanic roots in New Mexico. Through her writing she hopes to speak with and from that sacred sense of place that is inherent in the great Southwest, that intrinsic relationship between people and place – el sagrado, the sacred. Her essays have been published in regional literary magazines such as Pilgrimage and Bosque. Her work is also featured in the New Mexico Review, Blue Mesa Review, and is forthcoming in the Santa Fe Literary Review.