The University of Arizona Press

Jacob Shores-Argüello is a Costa Rican American poet and prose writer. His second book, Paraíso, was selected for the inaugural CantoMundo Poetry Prize. He is a 2018–19 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, a Lannan Literary Fellows for Poetry, and a 2024–25 Rome Prize in Literature winner. His poetry and fiction appear in the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and the Oxford American, among others. His work examines borders—between geologies, cultures, and languages—between humanity and the natural world.