Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha, which won the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, a 2022 Whiting Award, 2021 American Book Award, 2020 Southwest Book Award, 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN America / Jean Stein Award, and the L.A. Times Book Award, among others. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Magma, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, NinthLetter, Prairie Schooner, ctrl+v journal, and TriQuarterly, among others. He coedited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology, and he coedited and cotranslated Juan Felipe Herrera’s Akrílica. He serves as poetry editor for Noemi Press and Omnidawn, and he lives with his partner, poet Mai Der Vang, in Fresno, California.