José Antonio Rodríguez’s (he/him) latest book is The Day’s Hard Edge (Northwestern UP, 2024). His work has appeared most recently in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Paterson Literary Review, Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, and The Norton Introduction to Literature. His work is forthcoming in Breaking Into Blossom: Poems With Extraordinary Endings.
His writing explores themes of memory, family, language, trauma, masculinity, identity, and art as cultural artifact, drawing inspiration from a range of sources, including his background as a queer, Mexican immigrant and first-gen high school and college graduate. His other books include the memoir House Built on Ashes, shortlisted for the PEN America Los Angeles Literary Award; and the poetry collections This American Autopsy; The Shallow End of Sleep, winner of the Bob Bush Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters; and Backlit Hour, shortlisted for the Paterson Poetry Prize. His work is also part of the collaborative book Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives, a collection of artwork by Reefka Schneider, poems in English by Steven Schneider, and Rodríguez’s Spanish translations.
He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Macondo Writers’ Workshop, and CantoMundo. His work has also been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, the International Latino Book Award, and the Foreword INDIES book award, and received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize. He is also the recipient of the Discovery Award from the Writers’ League of Texas, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award from Paterson Literary Review, and the Founders’ Prize from RHINO. He teaches writing and literary translation in the creative writing program at The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley.
José Antonio Rodríguez 
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