Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from the University of California, Berkeley, and Antioch University Los Angeles. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2022) and the forthcoming, Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024). He has been published in The American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Huizache, Iowa Review, The Nation, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011. He edits for Frontier Poetry and teaches creative writing for various organizations including Beyond Baroque. Roots/Wounds/Words, The Writing Center, Hugo House, and elsewhere.