Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machines Editions) and The Real Horse (The University of Arizona Press). His chapbooks include My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta) and From Don’t Call it Reginald Denny (Society). Matuk serves as a poetry editor at Fence and and on the board of the conference Thinking it’s Presence: Race + Art + Creative Writing.