Anthony Cody

Finalist, 2020 National Book Awards

Anthony Cody is the author of The Rendering and Borderland Apocrypha. For his work, he has been awarded a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, a Southwest Book Award, as well as named a Finalist for a National Book Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among others. Learn more >

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Borderland Apocrypha

ISBN 9781632430762
Omnidawn Publishing

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican-American War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures, and long-lasting traumas. This pattern of state-sanctioned violence committed towards communities of color continues to the present day. More about this book >

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Anthony Cody

Anthony Cody is the author of The Rendering and Borderland Apocrypha. For his work, he has been awarded a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, a Southwest Book Award, as well as named a Finalist for a National Book Award, a PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among others. He was honored as a 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet. Anthony is from Fresno, California with lineage in the Bracero Program and Dust Bowl. Anthony is co-publisher of Noemi Press, a poetry editor for Omnidawn, and is currently visiting professor of poetry at Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop.

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