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Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for a reading with Dartmouth Frost Place Poet-in-Residence Nathan X. Osorio. Osorio will read from his book and there will be a Q&A and book signing after. 

Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry, Querida (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize selected by Shara McCallum, was a finalist for the California Book Award in Poetry, and was selected by Phillip B. Williams as a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s Norma Faber First Book Award. He is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave, selected by Oliver De la Paz as a recipient for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. He received his PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Literature and holds an MFA in Poetry and Literary Translation from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He was selected as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine and his work has appeared in BOMB, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Boston Review, The Notre Dame Review, U.S. LatinX Art Forum, The Slowdown, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. His writing and teaching have been supported by fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry Foundation. He is the 2025 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.