Rob Arnold is a CHamoru poet and essayist whose work has appeared in Ploughshares, Hyphen, Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, RED INK, Yes Poetry, The Ocean State Review, Peripheries, The Volta, and Solstice, among others, and has been anthologized in New CHamoru Literature and Na'huyong: An Anthology of CHamoru Literature. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have received support from the Somerville Arts Council, the Jack Straw Cultural Center, and Artist Trust. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he serves as Executive Director of Poets House and is writing a manuscript that explores indigeneity through violence and survival, divisions of the self and fragmentations of family.