Carmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her book In the Company of Spirits, published by Press 53, was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Anti-Heroin Chic, Cutthroat, Gargoyle, OyeDrum, PoetLore, Rogue Agent, Tahoma Literary Review and Verse Daily, and in numerous anthologies. She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner, a Best of La Bloga winner and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
