Hi, I’m Nathan Xavier Osorio.

I’m an educator, translator, & poet.

I’m currently available for teaching, editing, and translation projects.

Nathan Osorio smiling in a button up shirt in the Sonoran Desert

I’m the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for my collection Querida. Selected by poet Shara McCallum, my debut collection will be published by The University of Pittsburgh Press as part of the Pitt Poetry Series on September 10, 2024.

My chapbook, The Last Town Before the Mojave, was selected by Oliver de la Paz for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. My poetry, translations, and essays have been featured or are forthcoming in BOMB, The Offing, Boston Review, Public Books, Notre Dame Review, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. I’m currently a PhD candidate in Literature and Critical/Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Typically nomadic, I’m currently based in LA & PHX.

Scholarly Research

I’m at work on a critical and creative dissertation that explores the work of contemporary Latinx poets and artists who use multimodal decolonial poetics to unsettle western forms and illuminate the complexities of life within coloniality.

Selected Writing & Translations

Selected Interviews

I teach courses on creative writing, translation, literature, and cultural studies. I also offer translation services between the English and Spanish languages.