Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His collaborative chapbook Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood shares pages with Quenton Baker and Christina Sharpe. He has earned fellowships from CantoMundo, Artist Trust, and Poets House. He has been featured on the Poetry Podcast and Seattle’s the Stranger. He currently lives in Seattle, where he practices echocardiography.