Eduardo C. Corral is the son of Mexican immigrants and the author of Guillotine published by  Graywolf Press in 2020. His first book, Slow Lightning, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. His poems have appeared in Ambit, New England Review, the New Republic, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He’s the recipient of residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Civitella Ranieri. He’s also the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Hodder Fellowship, and the National Holmes Poetry Prize, both from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University. He lives in Raleigh.   

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