Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He’s from Southern California. His work appears in The Acentos Review, Bat City Review, Cincinnati Review, Huizache, Iowa Review, The Nation, Poet Lore, The Progressive, Witness, and in the Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011. His chapbook of prose poetry The Fire Eater is forthcoming with Texas Review Press in Spring 2020.