Courtney J. Campbell was born and raised in Michigan, but has lived in South America since 2001. Currently, she resides in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil where she teaches English and is enrolled in the Master's Program in Education at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Her research focuses on the causes of the spread of the English language in this region in the post World War II period. Her poetry has been published or accepted for publication in PoetryBay, Socialist Women, LanguageandCulture.net, The Michigan Socialist, The Uncommon Sense, Juice Press, The Iodine Poetry Journal, Kill Poet, and The Smoking Poet.