R. A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria, winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. His writing has appeared in AGNI, Gulf Coast, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Bellevue Literary Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, his honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry, fellowships from Kundiman and The Asian American Literary Review, and scholarships from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He is a language lecturer at New York University and lives in Brooklyn. (updated 7/2013)