Rodrigo Figueroa is the author of three books of poems in Spanish, Una frontera transparente (2013), Poemas para orquestra y quatro colibríes (2003), and Paganas procesiones (2001). He is also the author of one play, La breve jornada, which was staged at Mexico City’s National University in 2008 and received multiple awards. Born in 1980, he is part of a younger generation of Mexican poets living in the U.S. but writing in Spanish. He lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and is an assistant professor of Hispanic literature at New Mexico State University.