Nathan Xavier Osorio

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 received his PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz and was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine. He is the 2025 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.

Interviews

Nathan Xavier Osorio

Nov 19, 2025

Permanent Knots and Anti-Colonial Archives: A Conversation with Daniela Catrileo

When Chilco appeared in my life, I didn’t know it was going to be a novel. I told my friends I thought I was writing a poem that had just gone on too long, a poem in free prose that…
Interviews

Nathan Xavier Osorio

Jan 15, 2025

The Vastness of What We Don’t See: A Conversation with Oluwaseun Olayiwola

While I am a poet who is concerned with place, imaginative nowheres are where I think a poem begins.

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Nathan Xavier Osorio

Permanent Knots and Anti-Colonial Archives: A Conversation with Daniela Catrileo

The Vastness of What We Don’t See: A Conversation with Oluwaseun Olayiwola