Paige Quiñones is the author of The Best Prey, winner of the 2020 Pleiades Press Lena Miles-Wever Todd Prize for Poetry. She has received awards and fellowships from the Center for Mexican-American Studies, the Academy of American Poets, and Inprint Houston. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Juked, Lambda Literary, Orion Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD student in poetry at the University of Houston.

Books by Paige Quiñones:

Other poems on the web by Paige Quiñones:
"Aubade"
"Poem for the Girl Who Loves Girls"
"Love Poem: Fox"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Apophenia"

Paige Quiñones's Website.

Paige Quiñones on Twitter.

About The Best Prey:

"Rich in unflinching detail and deeply attuned to the music of language, The Best Prey is a terrific debut by a poet who seems fully formed."
—Kevin Prufer

"Quiñones's transgressions are elegant inevitabilities, her depictions of pain exuberant raptures."
—Jennifer Chang

"This book is a gift, daring us to thrive despite our circumstances because of unexpected lights."
—Aimee Nezhukumatathil

"The Best Prey is a lush collection converging at the vibrating intersection of danger and desire."
—Tiana Clark