Virgil Suárez

Virgil Suárez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962 and moved to the Unites States in 1974. He is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently, Palm Crows (Univ. of Arizona Press), Banyan ( LSU Press), and Guide To the Blue Tongue (Univ. of Illinois Press). He is the co-editor of the anthologies American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement, and Like Thunder: Poetry of Violence in America, both published by the University of Iowa Press. His work has been featured in a wide variety of national and international literary journals. He divides his time between Key Biscayne and Tallahassee, where he teaches at Florida State University.