Esteban Rodríguez

Esteban Rodríguez was raised in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas/Mexico border. Rodríguez is the author of Dusk & Dust (Hub City Press, 2019), Crash Course (Saddle Road Press, 2019), In Bloom (SFASU Press, 2020), (Dis)placement (Skull + Wind Press, 2020), and The Valley (Sundress Publications, 2021). He is a graduate of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s MFA program. His work has appeared in Thrush Poetry Journal, Malasaña, Boulevard, Shenandoah, The Rumpus, and TriQuarterly.

After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Rodríguez worked as a barista and a writing tutor before becoming a high school teacher. Currently, he is the interviews editor at the EcoTheo Review, an assistant poetry reviewer at AGNI, and a regular reviews contributor at Heavy Feather Review. You can find him on Twitter at @estebanjrod11.