A native of San Francisco, Francisco Aragón is the author of Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press) and Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press), as well as the editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press. His work has appeared in various anthologies, including, Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (W.W. Norton & Company),  American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press), Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality (Bottom Dog Press) and, Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (Ninebark Press). His poems and translations have appeared in various print and web publications, including, Chain, Crab Orchard Review, Chelsea, The Journal, the online journals, Jacket, Electronic Poetry Review, and Poetry Daily. Among his limited edition chapbooks are, Tertulia, (BOOKlyn). Aragón holds degrees in Spanish from the University of California at Berkeley and New York University, and an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis and the University of Notre Dame, respectively. He is the director of Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) at the University of Notre Dame. He is also the editor of Canto Cosas, a book series out of Bilingual Press that publishes Latino poetry. He is a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop in San Antonio, TX and serves as a Vice President on the board of directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).