Anthony Cody

Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Contest selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and The Rendering (Omnidawn, 2023). He is a 2022 Whiting winner, 2021 American Book Award winner, a 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet and a 2020 Southwest Book Award winner. Borderland Apocrypha was named a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry, the PEN America / Jean Stein Book Award, the California Book Award, the LA Times Book Award in Poetry, as well as longlisted for The Believer Magazine 2020 Editor’s Award in Poetry. A CantoMundo fellow from Fresno, California, Anthony has lineage in the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl. His work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets: Poem-A-Day, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The Colorado Review, The Boiler, ctrl+v journal, among others. Anthony co-edited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Heyday, 2011), as well as co-edited and co-translated Juan Felipe Herrera’s Akrílica (Noemi Press, 2022). His artwork has been exhibited at Fresno State, as well as in San Francisco at SOMArts. Anthony is a MFA-Creative Writing graduate from Fresno State and has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and Desert Nights, Rising Stars. Anthony won the inaugural 2020 CantoMundo Guzmán Mendoza / Paredez Fellowship for his then work-in-progress poetry manuscript, selected by Aracelis Girmay. He has taught ecopoetry at Fresno State, and has read, lectured, and led workshops across the country. Anthony serves as a co-publisher of Noemi Press, a poetry editor for Omnidawn, a collaborator with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio, and is faculty in poetry at Randolph College‘s Low Residency MFA Program. He currently lives in Fresno, CA with his partner, the poet Mai Der Vang.