Oliver Baez Bendorf (he/him) is the author of three poetry collections, including
Consider the Rooster (Nightboat Books, 2024), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His previous books are
Advantages of Being Evergreen (CSU Poetry Center, 2019) and
The Spectral Wilderness (The Kent State University Press, 2014). His poetry appears in
The Nation,
TheAmerican Poetry Review,
BOMB Magazine,
Orion,
The Yale Review, and in anthologies such as
Latino Poetry: A New Anthology (Library of America, 2024) and
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013). (
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