Ángel García

Ángel García is a Chicano poet born in Texas and raised in Southern California. He holds a a BA from the University of Redlands, an MFA from the University of California, Riverside, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

García is the author of Indifferent Cities (Tupelo Press, 2025) and Teeth Never Sleep (University of Arkansas Press, 2018), which was the winner of the 2018 CantoMundo Poetry Prize and a 2019 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, as well as a finalist for the PEN American 2019 Open Book Award and the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. 

García has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers, and MacDowell. He is an assistant professor in the English department at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.