Jacob Shores-Argüello

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Jacob Shores-Argüello is the author of the poetry collections Grief for the Green that Was (University of Arizona Press, 2026); Paraíso (University of Arkansas Press, 2017), winner of the inaugural CantoMundo Poetry Prize; and In the Absence of Clocks (University of Arkansas Press, 2014). 

Shores-Argüello was a 2018–19 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. He has been a recipient of both a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation and the Rome Prize in literature from the American Academy in Rome. He lives in Texas.