Urayoán Noel is a Bronx-based writer, performer, translator, and intermedia artist from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. His most recent books are the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa), the poetry collection Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (Arizona), and, as editor and translator, Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry (Shearsman) by Pablo de Rokha, which was shortlisted for the National Translation Award. He teaches at New York University and at Stetson University's MFA of the Americas, and he divides his time between New York City, Puerto Rico, and Central Florida.