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Edwin Torres

Edwin Torres is a multidisciplinary artist from New York City and the author of 14 books of poetry, including; Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (Roof Books, 2021 - American Book Award 2022), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave Books, 2018) Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press, 2014) and editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press, 2019). He has received fellowships from Arts MidHudson, NYSCA, The DIA Foundation, and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others. Anthologies include; New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archives (Nightboat Books, 2022), The Difference Is Spreading: 50 Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (UPenn Press, 2022), American Poets In The 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement (Wesleyan Press, 2018), Angels of The Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press, 2014) and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt, 1994). He is currently an Adjunct Poetry Professor at Columbia University.