Ruben Quesada, PhD, MFA, is an award-winning poet, editor, and literary critic.
He is the author of Brutal Companion (Barrow Street Press, 2024), winner of the Barrow Street Editors Prize, named a Notable Book of 2024 by the University of California, and selected as a Best New Poetry Collection by the Chicago Reader.
His previous collections and chapbooks include:
Next Extinct Mammal (Greenhouse Review Press)
Revelations (Sibling Rivalry Press)
Jane/La Segua (The Offending Adam)
As an editor, Quesada compiled the groundbreaking anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (University of New Mexico Press, 2022), featuring original work from over two dozen celebrated Latinx poets. The collection won the Gold Medal IPPY Award for Anthologies. His translation work includes the poetry of Luis Cernuda (Desolación de la quimera and Las nubes), featured in Exiled from the Throne of Night (Tupelo Press).
Quesada’s writing and research have received generous support from prestigious fellowships and grants, including CantoMundo, the Vermont Studio Center, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the American Literary Translators Association, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the City of Chicago, and the Illinois Arts Council in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
