Roberto Tejada is the author of poetry collections that include Carbonate of Copper (2025), Why the Assembly Disbanded (2022), Exposition Park (2010), and Mirrors for Gold (2006). His writings on art and media history include National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (2009), his work on the groundbreaking borderland Texan artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz (2009) and a collection of essays on Latinx art and culture, Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (2019). Awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Poetry (2021) he is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston where he teaches Creative Writing and Art History.