Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020) and the forthcoming Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024). His work appears in APR, Boulevard, Poetry, The Southern Review, Yale Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is an editor and creative writing teacher from Southeast Los Angeles.
