Ruben Quesada

In 2022, Quesada published an award-winning anthology, Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, by University of New Mexico Press.

Its initial advisory board included founding members of CantoMundo Poetry, Macondo Writers, and Letras Latinas.

The poems reinvent La Segua, a colonial myth rooted in racism and class from Costa Rica.

He served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and as VP of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) [11] from 2021 - 2023.

In 2021, he launched and served as the host of the Mercy Street Reading Series, a live literary broadcast featuring contemporary poets and writers.