OCTAVIO QUINTANILLA is the author of the poetry collections If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024) – which has been longlisted for the American Book Award – and Las Horas Imposibles/The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize given by the Academy of American Poets, forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press.