Steven Espada Dawson’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Guernica, Ninth Letter, AGNI, Poetry, and the 2023 Pushcart Prize anthology. In 2021 Dawson received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. The son of a Mexican immigrant, he is from East Los Angeles and currently lives in Wisconsin, where he is the 2022–2023 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. (updated 10/2022)