Alex Z. Salinas is the author of four volumes of poetry and a book of stories. His poetry collections include WARBLES (2019); DREAMT, or The Lingering Phantoms of Equinox (2020); Hispanic Sonnets (2023); and Trash Poems (2023). His short-story collection, City Lights From the Upside Down (2021), was included in the National Book Critics Circle's Critical Notes. For DREAMT, Salinas received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews. His fiction and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology. Salinas earned an M.A. in English Literature and Language as a Distinguished Graduate from St. Mary's University. He was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and lives in San Antonio.