Ruben Quesada is an award-winning poet and editor. He is the author of Revelations, Next Extinct Mammal, and the forthcoming collection of poetry, Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Editors Prize. He edited the groundbreaking anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, winner of the Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. His poetry and criticism appear in the New York Times Magazine, Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Harvard Review and elsewhere.