Joe Jiménez is the author of The Possibilities of Mud (Kórima 2014) and Bloodline (Arte Publico 2016). Jiménez is the recipient of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute of Latino Studies 2016 Letras Latinas/ Red Hen Press Poetry Prize. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he teaches at Thomas Jefferson High School and is a member of the Macondo Writing Workshops. For more information, visit joejimenez.net.