Anthony Cody is the author of The Rendering (Omnidawn, 2023) and Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020). For his work, he has been awarded a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, a Southwest Book Award, as well as named a finalist for a National Book Award, a PEN America / Jean Stein Award, a L.A. Times Book Award, among others. He was honored as a 2020 Poets & Writersdebut poet. Anthony is from Fresno, California with lineage in the Bracero Program and Dust Bowl. His work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets:Poem-A-Day Series, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, among others. He co-edited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Heyday, 2011), as well as co-edited and co-translated Juan Felipe Herrera’s Akrílica (Noemi Press, 2022). Anthony is co-publisher of Noemi Press, a poetry editor for Omnidawn, collaborates with Juan Felipe Herrera and LaLab, and teaches poetry at Randolph College’s Low Residency MFA Program. This reading is part of the Writers on Writing series, hosted by Literary Arts at Brown University.