Blas Falconer is the author of four poetry collections: Forgive the Body This Failure (Four Way Books, 2018), The Foundling Wheel (Four Way Books, 2012), A Question of Gravity and Light (Univ. of Arizona, 2007), and The Perfect Hour (Aequitas Books, 2006). He co-edited the anthologies, The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity (Univ. of Arizona, 2011) and Mentor and Muse - Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 2010). A teacher in the San Diego State Univ. MFA program, his awards include a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and the New Delta Review Eyster Prize for Poetry.