Anthony Cody is the author of the poetry collection Borderland Apocrypha, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry in 2020. The collection also won an American Book Award, a Southwest Book Award, and the Omnidawn Open Book Prize. The book explores the destabilized, hostile landscapes and silenced histories of borderlands. He is a CantoMundo fellow from Fresno, California, with lineage in both the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl. He co-edited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology, and co-edited and co-translated Juan Felipe Herrera’s Akrílica. He collaborates with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio at Fresno State, and serves as an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press and a poetry editor for Omnidawn.