Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work has been published or featured in The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Times, LitHub, The Nation, Poetry, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Currently, he is an Associate Editor at Frontier Poetry and a Guest Editor at Palette Poetry. Additionally, he has taught Creative Writing for Litro Magazine and Sevilla Writers House.