Oliver Baez Bendorf

Oliver Baez Bendorf (he/him) is the author of three poetry collections, including Consider the Rooster (Nightboat Books, 2024), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His previous books are Advantages of Being Evergreen (CSU Poetry Center, 2019) and The Spectral Wilderness (The Kent State University Press, 2014). His poetry appears in The Nation, TheAmerican Poetry Review, BOMB Magazine, Orion, The Yale Review, and in anthologies such as Latino Poetry: A New Anthology (Library of America, 2024) and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013).

Baez Bendorf’s work explores transformation, queerness, ecology, and interconnectedness between human and nonhuman worlds. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, CantoMundo, Lambda Literary, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and The Publishing Triangle.

Born and raised in Iowa, Baez Bendorf earned an MFA in poetry and an MA in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He lives along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains and teaches in the low-residency MFA program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.