Steven Espada Dawson

Steven Espada Dawson is the 2022-23 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW-Madison. The son of a Mexican immigrant, he is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. Most recently, his work appears in AGNI, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, and Poetry. He is from East Los Angeles.