Tomás Q. Morín

Tomás Q. Morín received a BA in Spanish from Texas State University, an MA in Hispanic and Italian Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and an MFA in creative writing from Texas State. He is the author of the poetry collections Machete (Knopf, 2021) and A Larger Country (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), winner of the APR/Honickman Prize and runner-up for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. 

Morín also authored the novel Cat Love (Pantheon, 2026) and two memoirs: Where Are You From: Letters to My Son (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) and Let Me Count the Ways (University of Nebraska Press, 2022). He translated Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu (Copper Canyon Press, 2015), and he coedited the anthology Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine (Prairie Lights Books, 2013).

The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Morín lives in Austin, Texas and is a professor of creative writing at Rice University.