Sasha Pimentel

Born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, Sasha Pimentel is the author of For Want of Water (Beacon Press, 2017), selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series, longlisted for the 2018 PEN America Open Book Award. She is also the author of Insides She Swallowed (West End Press, 2010), winner of the 2011 American Book Award. A finalist for the 2015 Rome Prize (American Academy of Arts and Letters), her work has been featured in New York Times Magazine, PBS NewsHour online, Poets & Writers, poets.org, American Poetry Review, Lit Hub, Guernica and New England Review, among others.

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, on the border of Ciudad Juárez, México, to students from all over the Americas in their bilingual (Spanish-English) MFA Program, and affiliated faculty in the Chican@ Studies Program.

Official website: www.sashapimentel.com

(Photo by Jorge Salgado)