William Archila is the author of three poetry collections: The Art of Exile (Bilingual Review Press, 2009), winner of the International Latino Book Award; The Gravedigger’s Archaeology (Red Hen Press, 2015), winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize; and S is For (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming 2025), winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry, AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, and other journals, as well as in anthologies such as The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 4: LatiNext (Haymarket Books, 2020) and Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry (Kalina, 2014). He lives in Los Angeles, on Tongva land. (updated 04/2024)