Education
PhD, English, Texas Tech University
MFA, Creative Writing for the Performing Arts, University of California, Riverside
BA, Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside
Ruben Quesada is the editor of a hybrid collection, Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry. He is the author of Jane: La Segua, Revelations, and Next Extinct Mammal: Poems. His writing appears in The New York Times, Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review and elsewhere. He has served as an editor for AGNI, The Rumpus, and Pleiades and as a poetry blogger for The Kenyon Review and Ploughshares. He teaches for the UCLA Extension Writers Program.
Partial list of publications: Jane: La Segua, Revelations, Next Extinct Mammal: Poems, Exiled From the Throne of Night: Selected Translations of Luis Cernuda. His writing appears in The New York Times, Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review and elsewhere. He is the editor of the hybrid collection, Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry.
Genres: Poetry
Awards: Fellow, Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA); Chair, Nonfiction Committee, National Book Critics Circle
Current residence: Chicago, IL