Steven Sanchez is the author of Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications, 2018), chosen by Mark Doty for the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. A CantoMundo Fellow, Lambda Literary Fellow, and the inaugural winner of the Federico García Lorca Poetry Prize, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Agni, American Poetry Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Poet Lore, and other journals.