Blas Falconer

Blas Falconer is an American poet, editor, and professor.

Works Blas Falconer is the author of four full-length poetry collections: A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press, 2007); The Foundling Wheel (Four Way Books, 2012); Forgive the Body This Failure (Four Way Books, 2018); and Rara Avis (Four Way Books, 2024), which won the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His poems have appeared in literary journals, including The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review , Green Mountains Review , The Harvard Review , The New York Times , Poetry , and Terrain.org .

Along with poets Beth Martinelli and Helena Mesa, Falconer co-edited Mentor & Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). With writer Lorraine M. López, Falconer co-edited The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity (University of Arizona Press, 2011).

Falconer is Editor in Chief of Poetry International Online. Previously, he served as the poetry editor for both Zone 3 Press and Zone 3.

Biography Raised in the suburbs of Washington D.C., Falconer spent most summers in Salinas, Puerto Rico, with his maternal grandmother. Falconer is a Professor of Poetry in the MFA program at San Diego State University.

Education Falconer holds a B.A. from George Mason University, an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston.

Awards

2009: Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers 2011: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 2025: Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry for Rara Avis