Ruben Quesada (MFA, PhD) is author of Next Extinct Mammal, and translator of the early 20th century Spanish poet, Luis Cernuda, Exiled from the Throne of Night. He is Senior Editor of Queen Mob’s Tea House, Contributing Editor at the Chicago Review of Books, and Founder of the Latino Caucus, which meets annually at AWP. His writing and poetry films have been featured at the Poetry Foundation, the Art Institute of Chicago, Best American Poetry blog, The American Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review, TriQuarterly, Stand, and elsewhere. He is creative writing faculty at UCLA Extension Writers' Program.