Román Luján is a Mexican poet, educator, and literary translator based in the Bay Area. He is the author of several poetry books in Spanish, including Sánafabich, where he explores a poetics of anti-assimilation by examining the history of violence (material and symbolic) on both sides of the US-Mexico border. His work, translated into English, German, and Finnish, has been awarded three national poetry prizes in Mexico. Imagenigma, his first full poetry collection translated into English, will be published by Cardboard House Press. He teaches Spanish and literature at UC Berkeley.