Steven Sanchez is a CantoMundo Fellow and a Lambda Literary Fellow. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Fresno State University. His first full-length collection, Phantom Tongue, is forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2018 and was selected by Mark Doty as the winner of Marsh Hawk Press’ Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. His poems have appeared or will appear in Nimrod, Poet Lore, Crab Creek Review, Tinderbox, The Blueshift Journal, and others.