The daughter of a Black American father and Puerto Rican mother, Dr. McCauley’s creative and scholarly work centers on individuality, identity, Afro-Latinidad, cultural clashes and belonging. She enjoys reading, taking beach walks, dancing, watching 90s anime, eating macaroni and cheese and sitting under trees. She is the author of the hybrid collection SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, the short story collection WHEN TRYING TO RETURN HOME and the poetry collection KINDS OF GRACE (Spring 2024). She lives and writes in Houston, TX.