Lit Fox Poetry Residency 2026
- Feedback on your work
- An interview with Lit Fox Books
- A copy of an upcoming Lit Fox Books release
Details from our 2025 poetry residency
We were thrilled to have Will Cordeiro as the selected poet for our residency.
Will Cordeiro is the author of the poetry collection Trap Street (Able Muse, 2021) and the fiction collection Whispering Gallery (DUMBO Press, 2024). Will is also coauthor of a rock opera, Pop Goes the Ferret (produced at Coconino Center for the Arts, 2024), Experimental Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), and the forthcoming New Foundations of Creative Writing (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026). Will’s work appears in journals such as 32 Poems, AGNI, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Pleiades, and The Threepenny Review. Will is founding coeditor of the small press Eggtooth Editions and currently lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020) Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024) The Parachutist (Sundress Publications, 2025) and Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man (Red Hen Press, 2025). He has been published in Bennington Review, The Yale Review, The London Magazine, The Southern Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, and in The Best American Poetry 2025. He has taught creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. Currently, he is the Visiting Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee.