Ruben Quesada’s latest poetry collection, Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editors Prize, was published in October 2024. He edited the anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award in 2023. Quesada’s work appears in prestigious publications including Seneca Review, American Poetry Review, the Best American Poetry series, Harvard Review, and The New York Times Magazine. Quesada has received fellowships from the Jentel Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Community of Writers, and Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.