Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood, My Daughter La Chola, and The Real Horse. With visual artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Matuk created the book-arts project Redolent, recipient of the 2023 Anna Rabinowitz Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Matuk’s work has been supported by residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, a visiting Holloway Lectureship in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley, and a 2024 USA Fellowship from United States Artists. He is Associate Professor of English and director of the MFA creative writing program at the University of Arizona.