Ángel García, the proud son of Mexican immigrants, is the author of Indifferent Cities (Tupelo Press, forthcoming), winner of a Helena WhiteHill Book Award and Teeth Never Sleep (University of Arkansas Press, 2018), recipient of a CantoMundo Poetry Prize, an American Book Award, and finalist for a PEN America Open Book Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

 

His work has been published in American Poetry Review, McSweeney's, Crab Orchard Review, Huizache, The Acentos Review, and most recently in The Missouri Review and fugue journal. He has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell.

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Ángel earned a PhD from the University of Nebraksa, Lincoln, an M.F.A. from the University of California-Riverside, a B.A. from the University of Redlands, and an A.A. from Long Beach City College. In addition to his creative and academic work, Ángel is also the cofounder of the non-profit organization, Gente Organizada, that works to educate, empower, and engage communities through grassroots organizing. He currently teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.