José Angel Araguz is a CantoMundo fellow and the author of seven chapbooks as well as the collections Everything We Think We Hear, Small Fires, and Until We Are Level Again. His poems, prose, and reviews have appeared in Crab Creek Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Bind. Born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, he runs the poetry blog The Friday Influence and teaches at Suffolk University in Boston where he is also the Editor-in-Chief of Salamander.