A poet of subtext — of what is said, and what stays unsaid.

Blas Falconer is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Rara Avis (Four Way Books, 2024), winner of the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry. His other books include Forgive the Body This Failure, The Foundling Wheel, and A Question of Gravity and Light.

His translation of Mariano Zaro's Padre Tierra: A Poem in 50 Sections was published by Artepoetica Press in 2025.

He is also a co-editor of The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity (University of Arizona Press, 2011) and Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010).

Falconer's awards include a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant, the New Delta Review Eyster Prize for Poetry, and the Barthelme Fellowship.

Born and raised in Virginia, Falconer earned an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland (1997) and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston (2002). He teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University, where he serves as editor-in-chief of Poetry International Online.