Blas Falconer

Professor of Poetry
Office: AL-270 | Phone: (619) 594-6102 | Email: [email protected]

Blas Falconer is the author of four poetry collections, including Rara Avis, winner of the Thom Gunn Award, Forgive the Body This Failure, and a coeditor of two essay collections, The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity and Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. His poems have been featured by Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Harvard Review, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, the Academy of American Poets, and The New York Times, among other literary journals and institutions. His awards include an NEA Fellowship, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange, and a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant. He has served as a poetry editor for The Los Angeles Review and Mentor and Muse (online). Blas is currently the editor-in-chief of Poetry International Online.