Paul Martinez Pompa is a papa, poet and profe who earned degrees from The University of Chicago and Indiana University. His first book, My Kill Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press), was selected for the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize by Martin Espada. Match Factory Editions published his most recent book, Domestic Corpse. Martinez Pompa's work has been widely anthologized, including in What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Trump Era, and The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. His poetry was commissioned for a Chicago Public Radio project called "In Verse," which aimed to explore the emotional weight of gun violence. He is CantoMundo fellow and currently on the editorial board at Packingtown Review.