Nathan Xavier Osorio's debut collection of poetry, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave, selected by Oliver De la Paz as a recipient for the Poetry Society of America's 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. He received his PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His writing has also appeared in BOMB, The Offing, Boston Review, Public Books, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. His writing and teaching have been supported by fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry Foundation. He is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine.

Other poems by Nathan Xavier Osorio in Verse Daily:
March 17, 2024:   "How to Cook a Wolf" "My mother fell in love with the way you cracked..."

Other poems on the web by Nathan Xavier Osorio:
Two poems

Nathan Xavier Osorio's Website.

Nathan Xavier Osorio on Twitter.

About Querida:

"Memory is a guiding force in Nathan Osorio's stunning debut, Querida. From the opening, single-sentence tour-de-force of a poem to sonnet-sequences throughout, Osorio's formal agility and singular voice takes hold of our attention and never lets it go. "
—Shara McCallum