César L. de León

César L. de León is the author of Speaking with Grackles by Soapberry Trees (FlowerSong 2021)—winner of the Texas Institute of Letters John A. Robertson Award for the Best First Book of Poetry (2021) and the Philosophical Society of Texas Best Book of Poetry award (2022). He is an educator, one of four poet-organizers for Poets Against Walls, and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. His work has been published in Queen Mob’s Tea House, Pilgrimage, The Acentos Review, Yellow Chair Review, La Bloga, and the anthologies Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, The Border Crossed Us: An Anthology to End Apartheid, Texas Weather Anthology, and Boundless: The Official Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, among others. He has received awards from the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.