About
José A. Alcántara is the author of The Bitten World: Poems (Tebot Bach, 2022). His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in American Life in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, Bennington Review, Rattle, The Harvard Review, 32 Poems, The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, & The Slowdown. José has received fellowships from Fishtrap, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Willapa Bay AIR. He won the 2021 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle and has been a four-time finalist for the Cantor Prize. José has worked as a bookseller, mailman, electrician, commercial fisherman, baker, carpenter, studio photographer, door-to-door salesman, and math teacher. He lives in western Colorado and wherever he happens to pitch his tent.