Brooke is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Buffalo. Her academic work focuses on contemporary Indigenous and Latinx poetry through the lens of spatiality. For her dissertation, she is writing on what she terms coterminous territories—a contested or extra-legal spatial formation that generates multiple, often incompatible experiences of lived socio-political identity within the same space. To understand this phenomenon, she uses the work of poets such as José Felipe Alvergue, Anthony Cody, Natalie Diaz, and Esther Belin.