Roberto Tejada

Roberto Tejada is a translator, editor, essayist, art historian, and cultural critic. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Carbonate of Copper (Fordham University Press, 2025); Why the Assembly Disbanded (Fordham University Press, 2022); and Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (Noemi Press, 2019). 

A 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Poetry, Tejada is also the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches in the departments of English, creative writing, and art history.