Vincent Antonio Rendoni is the author of A Grito Contest in the Afterlife (Catamaran, 2022), which Dorianne Laux selected as the winner of the 2022 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast poets. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, AGNI, Ninth Letter, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Sycamore Review, and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. (updated 4/2024)