Xavier Cavazos received his MFA in 2013 from Iowa State University where he served as poetry editor for Flyway: Journal of Creative Writing and the Environment and is the author of Barbarian at the Gate, selected and introduced by Thomas Sayers Ellis as part of the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets Chapbook Series and Diamond Grove Slave Tree, the inaugural Prairie Seed Poetry Prize from Ice Cube Press. Cavazos has poetry forthcoming in the Best American Experimental Writing (BAX) 2015, and teaches in the Africana and Black Studies and the Professional and Creative Writing Programs at Central Washington University. He is a devoted husband to his beautiful wife Shelly & proud father to Dominic, Brooklyn & Carlos Lorenzo Cavazos.

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