Haydil Henriquez is an arts educator, cultural advocate, program manager and Bronx-bred poet. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology & Education from Swarthmore College in 2014, and has worked with communities across the Diaspora facilitating oral storytelling workshops for youth. Although Haydil does not possess a formal degree in writing, she witnessed the magic of poetry during her formative years in the spoken word community.

Published in The Best Teen Writing of 2008, and later receiving honors like the Mahasweta Devi/ Gloria Anzaldúa Creative/Visual/ Performing Arts Award in 2012 from the Intercultural Center at Swarthmore. Haydil then participated in the Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship in 2018, Las Musas Books Hermanas Mentorship Program in 2020 and Cave Canem Intermediate Portals into Language Workshop in 2021.

Since then her work has been published in Cutbank Literary Journal (University of Montana, 2020), Rigorous Magazine (2021), Coffin Bell Journal (2022), ¡Pa'lante! (2022), TroubleMaker FireStarter (2022), Worcestor Review (2022) and many more literary publications. Haydil was honored as the inaugural Bronx Poet Laureate in 2021.