Marisa Tirado

Marisa Tirado is the author of Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either (Texas Review Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize. Tirado studied poetry and literary translation at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has held fellowships from Image Journal, Macondo, Kenyon Review, University of Wellington, and Eckerd College. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Triquarterly, and other journals. She currently lives in the Southwest with her husband and teaches writing at the University of Colorado-Boulder.