About the Author

Rigoberto González is the author 15 books, including the poetry collections OUR LADY OF THE CROSSWORD (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2015), Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and OTHER FUGITIVES AND OTHER STRANGERS (Tupelo Press, 2006). A professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey, he is the recipient of Guggenheim, NEA and USA Rolón fellowships; a NYFA grant in poetry; the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America; The Poetry Center Book Award; the Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award; and the 2015 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle.