Blas Falconer is the author of "Forgive the Body This Failure," "The Foundling Wheel," "A Question of Gravity and Light," and "The Perfect Hour." He is also a co-editor for "The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity" and "Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets." He teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University. Falconer's awards include a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant, the New Delta Review Eyster Prize for Poetry, and the Barthelme Fellowship.