U.S., Southwestern

ire’ne lara silva (she/they) is the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate and the author of the poetry collections the eaters of flowers (Saddle Road Press, 2024), FirstPoems: ani’mal, INDíGENA, and furia (FlowerSong...

Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize. The recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial...

Richard W. Shelton was a writer, poet, and emeritus Regents Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. Shelton published twelve books and chapbooks of poetry. Shelton's first book, The Tattooed...

Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is a Cave Canem fellow and an Affrilachian Poet. She is the author of the poetry collections Conversion (Lotus, 2006), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett ...

Esteban Rodríguez was raised in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas/Mexico border. Rodríguez is the author of Dusk & Dust (Hub City Press, 2019), Crash Course (Saddle Road Press, 2019), In Bloom (SFASU Press...

Maya Marshall (she/her) is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Adelphi University. She is the author of All the Blood Involved in Love (Haymarket Books, 2022) and a cofounder of underbelly...

Jenn Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of Rosa’s Einstein (University of Arizona Press, 2019), Girl with Death Mask (Indiana University Press, 2017), Protection...

Cynthia Macdonald had a varied career that included music, teaching, and poetry. At the age of 12, she attended her first opera at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. She was taken with the music...

Originally from Galveston, Texas, Lupe Mendez (writer/educator/activist) is the author of Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry...

Novelist, poet, and educator David Bowles was born to Mexican American parents and raised in the Río Grande Valley. He earned his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Texas–Pan American. The cultural traditions...

Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez is an Afro-Indigenous poet; an installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México; and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Lopez’s debut visual poetry collection...

Jenny George is the author of The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). She is also a winner of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference...

Demian DinéYazhi' was born in Gallup, New Mexico, on Diné Bikéyah (Navajo Nation) to the clans Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá (Zuni Clan Water’s Edge) and Tódích'íí'nii (Bitter Water). DinéYazhi' earned a BFA from Pacific...

Crisosto Apache is originally from Mescalero, New Mexico, on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. He is Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) of the 'Áshįįhí (Salt Clan) born for the Kinyaa'á...

Poet, feminist, photographer, oral historian, and social activist Margaret Randall was born in New York City and grew up in New Mexico. Returning to New York in the 1950s, she was associated with both the ...

Poet Vassar Miller was born in Houston, Texas, and lived all her life in that city’s museum district. She earned her BA and MA in English from the University of Houston. Miller was born with cerebral palsy...

Children’s author and poet Katherine B. Hauth grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After leaving a career as a personnel analyst in Seattle, she found herself drawn to the natural rhythms she encountered in ...

Born in San Francisco, Jana Harris is the author of Manhattan as a Second Language and Other Poems (1982), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Oh How Can I Keep on Singing?: Voices of Pioneer Women (2003), finalist...

Michael Gessner was born and raised in Michigan. He earned his BA from Wayne State University and his MA and PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has authored 11 books of poetry, essays, and fiction...

Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas...