Jesús Castillo is the author of the poetry collections Remains (McSweeney's, 2016) and Two Murals (The Song Cave, 2021). He has received fellowships from the University of Iowa, the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Tasajillo Writers' Residency. His poems have appeared in the Boston Review, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day Series, the Porter House Review, and other publications. He lives in Oaxaca, Mexico.