J. Estanislao Lopez is the author of We Borrowed Gentleness (Alice James Books, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 Texas Institute of Letters John A. Robert Johnson Award. His poems have been featured in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry magazine, The Rumpus, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Lopez earned an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. He currently teaches in the community college system in his hometown, Houston, Texas. Source