José Rodríguez

José Antonio Rodríguez is the author of the poetry collections The Shallow End of Sleep and Backlit Hour, and the memoir House Built on Ashes, winner of the Discovery Award from the Writers’ League of Texas and finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, POETRY, and The Texas Observer, among other publications. He holds degrees in Biology and Theatre Arts and a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from Binghamton University. He is a member of CantoMundo, Macondo Writers’ Workshop, and the Texas Institute of Letters, and teaches writing in the M.F.A. program at The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. Learn more at www.JARodriguez.org.