Steven Sanchez is the author of Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications, 2018), selected by Mark Doty as the winner of the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. He is also the author of two chapbooks: Photographs of Our Shadows (Agape Editions) and To my Body (Glass Poetry Press). A CantoMundo Fellow and Lambda Literary Fellow, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review, Poet Lore, Nimrod, Muzzle, Crab Creek Review, and other publications.