Craig Santos Perez is an Indigenous CHamoru scholar and poet from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). He is the author of five books of poetry and the co-editor of five anthologies. He has received the American Book Award, the PEN Center USA/Poetry Society of America Literary Prize, and the Hawai'i Literary Arts Council Award, as well as fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is a professor in the English Department and an affiliate faculty with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the Indigenous Politics Program at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa.