Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric cultures of the Americas. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019), Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020), Infinite Regress (in collaboration with Eamon Ore Giron, Bom Dia Books, 2021), and Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2022). He is currently finishing books on the Cantares Mexicanos and the baroque Americas. He teaches in the departments of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.