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Oliver Baez Bendorf is the author of Consider the Rooster (Nightboat Books, 2024), Advantages of Being Evergreen (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019), and The Spectral Wilderness (Kent State University Press, 2014). He earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Iowa, and an MFA in Poetry and MA in Library & Information from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a fellow of the CantoMundo Poetry Workshop, recipient of the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize, and was a faculty member at the 2019 Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place. He lives in Colorado.