José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes was born and raised in the Philippines. He is the author of the chapbook Present Values (Backbone Press, 2018), winner of the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club. His poems have appeared most recently in Rattle: Poets Respond, Scoundrel Time, and Solstice; and have been anthologized in The Powow River Anthology (Volumes I and II), Villanelles, The Achieve Of, The Mastery: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, mid-‘90s to 2016, and No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant and First-Generation American Poetry.