Blas Falconer is the author of three poetry collections, including Forgive the Body This Failure, and a co-editor of two essay collections, The Other [email protected]: Writing Against a Singular Identity and Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. He has received numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange. He is a poetry editor for The Los Angeles Review and teaches in the MFA at San Diego University.