Michael Dowdy

Michael Dowdy is the author of the forthcoming book of lyric essays Tell Me about Your Bad Guys (University of Nebraska Press, 2025). His other books include the critical anthology Poetics of Social Engagement, coedited with Claudia Rankine (Wesleyan University Press, 2018); the collection of poems Urbilly (Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, 2017); and the study of Latinx poetry Broken Souths (University of Arizona Press, 2013). He teaches Latinx literature at Villanova University.