Oliver Baez Bendorf

Oliver Baez Bendorf is the author of Consider the Rooster (Nightboat Books, 2024), and two previous collections of poems: Advantages of Being Evergreen and The Spectral Wilderness. His chapbook, The Gospel According to X, was selected for the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series. His poems have circulated in publications like American Poetry Review, BOMB, The Nation, and Yale Review, and anthologies including Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics and Latino Poetry: A New Anthology. His work has been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Publishing Triangle Award. Oliver earned his BA at the University of Iowa, and an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Library and Information Studies, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa, and now living along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, he is a CantoMundo fellow and teaches in the MFA program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.