Felicia Rose Chavez is a native New Mexican with an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa. An award-winning educator, Felicia is currently at work on The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize The Creative Classroom, forthcoming from Haymarket Books. , was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and won the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. He teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy.