Oliver Baez Bendorf

Oliver Baez Bendorf forthcoming book of poems is Consider the Rooster (Nightboat Books, September 10, 2024), which Brian Teare called a “visionary book of queer ecological thought.” He is the author of two previous books of poetry: Advantages of Being Evergreen and The Spectral Wilderness, and a chapbook The Gospel According to X, selected for the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series. His work has been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Publishing Triangle Award, and fellowships from CantoMundo, Vermont Studio Center, Lambda Literary, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His poems have been featured in publications like American Poetry Review, BOMB, The Nation, and Orion, and across various anthologies including Best American Poetry, Latino Poetry: A New Anthology, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Since 2011, he has taught poetry writing to people of all ages, including at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Kalamazoo College, and through workshops across the country. He received an MFA in poetry from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA from University of Iowa. Born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa, he now lives along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado.