Sebastian Páramo is the author of Portrait of Us Burning (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books). His work has recently appeared in the Gulf Coast, Poetry London, Split Lip, Protean Magazine, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. His work has received fellowships and support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at UT-Austin, and CantoMundo. He is the founding editor of The Boiler, an Assistant Editor for Texas Review Press, and teaches at Southern Methodist University.