Tomás Q. Morín
Faculty, Postgraduate Writers' Conference
Profile
Tomás Q. Morín’s three collections of poetry are Machete (Knopf, 2021); Patient Zero (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); and A Larger Country (American Poetry Review, 2012), winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. He is also the author of two books of prose, both from University of Nebraska Press: Where Are You From: Letters to My Son (2024) and the 2022 memoir Let Me Count the Ways, which received The Writer’s League of Texas Nonfiction Book Award. He co-edited the anthology, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, and translated The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda.
Morín is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. His poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Poetry, and American Poetry Review. He previously served as MFA Poetry and Translation faculty at VCFA and teaches Creative Writing at Rice University.