Joe Jiménez is the author of the poetry collections Rattlesnake Allegory, The Possibilities of Mud and a young adult novel, Bloodline.  Jiménez is the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Press Poetry Prize.  His poems have appeared on the PBS NewsHour and Lambda Literary sites. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he is completing a new young adult novel that will be published by MTV Books in 2024. Joe is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.