José Antonio Rodríguez is the author of The Shallow End of Sleep (Tia Chucha/Northwestern UP) and Backlit Hour (SFA Press). Recent work has appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, Green Mountains Review, Lake Effect, and elsewhere. He was awarded the Clifford D. Clark Doctoral Fellowship from Binghamton University, where he received a PhD in English. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Texas-Pan American.