Zury Cordova is a first-year student at the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, pursuing a bachelor's degree in communications, and a minor in creative writing. She is passionate about creative expression and spends her free time journaling, writing, and painting. Her favorite authors include Sylvia Plath, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Neruda, and Sandra Cisneros.