Xavier Cavazos is a performance artist and a grand slam champion of the NuYoRican Poets Cafe in NYC, and a member of three national poetry slam teams. He is the author of three award-winning poetry collections: Barbarian at the Gate (Poetry Society of America), Diamond Grove Slave Tree (Ice Cube Press), and The Devil’s Workshop, (Editor’s Choice Award from Cleveland State University Poetry Center, forthcoming 2023). Currently, Cavazos is a senior poetry editor for Poetry Northwest, Directs the Liberal Studies Program at Central Washington University, and serves on the board of trustees for Humanities Washington. 

He hopes to conjure.