José Felipe Alvergue was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, and grew up on the Mexico/US Border. He is a graduate of both the CalArts Writing (MFA) and Buffalo Poetics (PhD) programs. He is also the author of gist : rift : drift : bloom (2015), precis (2017), and scenery (2020), which won Fordham University Press’s Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize. An Associate Professor of Contemporary Literature and Transnationalism, José works and lives in Wisconsin.