Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States at age five through the mountains of Tijuana. He is a CantoMundo Fellow and is the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan's Creative Writing MFA program. He cofounded Undocupoets, for which he was awarded the 2016 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in PBS NewsHour, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Southern Humanities Review, and BuzzFeed, among others. He lives in California where he teaches at Sacramento State University.

Books by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo:

Other poems on the web by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo:
Three poems
Two poems
[theory of disappearance]
Three poems
"Immigration Interview With Jay Leno"
"Origin of Glass"
"Nuclear Fictions"
Two poems
"Field Guide Ending in a Deportation"
"Pulling the Moon"

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's Website.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo According to Wikipedia.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo on Twitter.

About Cenzontle:

"I know this book changed me. The book itself knows change, how to change itself, knows so well how transformation—vast essential change which would seem to oppose a self—brings a person ever closer to their truth."
—Brenda Shaughnessy

"In the spirit of Whitman, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo slips in silently to lie down between the bridegroom and the bride, to inhabit many bodies and many souls, between rapture and grief. These are poems that open borders both personal and political, a map of silences and celebrations. 'You called it cutting apart / I called it song.'"
—D. A. Powell

"In this exquisite debut collection, longing twins with inheritance to consider the interiority of nationhood and the legacy of masculinity and exile. Castillo's finely-honed poems celebrate and reveal the contours of physical and historical intimacies, a feast for the eyes and heart."
—Carmen Giménez Smith