Selected books by Ruben Quesada, spanning poetry, translation, and editorial work


Brutal Companion (Barrow Street Press, 2024)
Winner of the Barrow Street Editors Prize; a collection reckoning with loss, intimacy, and identity.

JANE / La Segua (The Offending Adam, 2023)
A chapbook reimagining myth through a contemporary lyric voice.

Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (University of New Mexico Press, 2022)
An anthology of original essays on poetry by living poets of Latin American heritage, edited by Quesada; winner of the 2023 Gold Medal IPPY Award for Anthologies.

Revelations (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018)
A chapbook pairing original poems with translations of Spanish poet Luis Cernuda.

Next Extinct Mammal (Greenhouse Review Press, 2011) - OUT OF PRINT
Quesada's debut full-length poetry collection.

Exiled from the Throne of Night (Tupelo Press, 2008)
A limited-edition volume of Quesada's translations of Luis Cernuda's poems.