OLIVER DE LA PAZ is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in poetry. His work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, and Poetry, and in anthologies and periodicals such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation and The New York Times. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, de la Paz teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and lives in Holden, Massachusetts.