Edgar Silex is the author of three poetry collections, Through All The Displacements and Acts of Love, from Northwestern University Press, and Borrowing Directions from the Dark, forthcoming from Northwest Poetry's Native Torchlight Series. Mr. Silex also authored a chapbook, Even the Dead Have Memories, from New Sins Press. His first book was a nominee for the National Book Award, his second book was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. He has received 11 nominations to the Pushcart Prize, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Artist District program in Baltimore. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. His Indigenous ancestors are Texcuexe and Nican Nahua/Nicarao. He is in the process of learning Nahuatl, his Indigenous language.