Born in Argentina and raised bilingually in California, Samantha Cosentino explores the interior and exterior landscapes of migration, home, and identity in her creative work. She has published poetry and translation in Asymptote, New American Writing, and elsewhere. Cosentino lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she works in education.
The streets are growing emptyof human trappings, life’s color.One after another, we pull back.Nobody is calling out to me,nobody is coming down the street.We speak from behind wallsin the city where b…