Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010) and of several chapbooks including, mostly recently, My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta Press, 2013). He serves on the editorial team at Fence> magazine, on the board of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race & Creative Writing, and he teaches on the MFA faculty at the University of Arizona.