Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the U.S. when he was nine. A winner of the Barnes & Noble Writer for Writer’s Award, he has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, the MacDowell Colony, the NEA, and Yaddo. His poems appear or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. (updated 4/2016)