Vincent Antonio Rendoni is an award-winning poet and writer.

Vincent Antonio Rendoni is the author of A Grito Contest in the Afterlife, winner of the 2022 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets selected by Dorianne Laux. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, AGNI, The Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Alaska Quarterly Review, december, The Vestal Review, and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions.

Books

• A Grito Contest in the Afterlife, Winner of the 2022 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. (Catamaran, 2022).

Performances & Interviews

• Summit Sound Installation at The Seattle Convention Center. “A Family of Axolotls”. Seattle, WA. 2023–Present

• Author Spotlight with Letras Latinas — The Institute for Latino Studies. Notre Dame, ID. 2023.

• Interview with The Hive Poetry Collective on KSQD 90.7 FM Community Radio. Santa Cruz, CA. 2023.

• Jack Straw x Bushwick Book Club, “Songbird with Plums” and “Lay Your Hunger at My Feet” with Lucas Van Linden. Seattle, WA. 2023.

• Jack Straw Writers Debut Reading with Michael Schmeltzer, Erin Langner, Carrie Beyer, and Ruth Schemmel. Seattle, WA. 2022.

Select Poetry

• “Weenies Con Huevos”, “The Year Nobody Died” in The Pleiades. (Forthcoming, 2024.)

• “Cleaning My Mother’s Garage After She Downsized”, “Attack of the 50-Foot Abuela” in Alaska Quarterly Review. (Forthcoming, 2024.)

• “Murcielagos” in december. (Forthcoming, 2024.)

• "Primo Alonzo Gets a Job” in Sonora Review. (Forthcoming, 2024.)

• “The Panaderia at the End of the World” in Ninth Letter. 2024.

• “A Moment of Tenderness” in Aquifer: The Florida Review Online. 2024.

• “The Unwritten Rules of Animating Speedy Gonzales” and “Whenever I Say I’m Mexican” in AGNI. 2024.

• “Not Yet a Man, Not Yet a Skeleton” in Birdcoat Quarterly. 2024.

• “The Obsidian Mirror”, “Learning to Live Without”, “The First Thing My Friend’s Friend, The Scientist Did After He Discovered A New Species Of Fly In The Montana Wilderness” in Black Lily Zine. 2024.

• “Longacres” in Ghost City Review. 2024.

• “Bruce Lee Does The Cha Cha With My Grandmother in the Seventh Level of the Underworld” in Heavy Feather Review. 2024.

• “Walla Walla” in The Citron Review. 2023.

• “Zarzamora”, “The Phantom Rides Again” in Prairie Schooner. 2023.

• “Istanbul, May”, “Istanbul, Winter” in The South Carolina Review. 2023.

• ”Fresas” in The Ilanot Review: The Money Issue. 2023.

• ”Responding to the Saxophone Solo from Baker Street” in 86 Logic. 2023.

• ”Denial”, “Reappropriation” in The Acentos Review. 2023.

• “A Family of Axolotls” in The Sycamore Review: The Noncompliant Issue. 2023.

• “A Grito Contest in the Afterlife” in Juked. 2023.

• ”Legends of the Hidden Temple”, “The Tio Who is Bad With Money”, “Find Me a Pear Tree” in Another Chicago Magazine. 2022.

• ”Juana Turns to Sugar” in Texas Review. 2022

• ”A Grito Contest in Purgatory” in Catamaran Literary Reader. 2022.

• ”Forgiveness” in Quarterly West. 2022.

• Three poems in Ice Queen Magazine. 2022. (“Songbird with Plums”, Nominee, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses)

• ”Tips for Shadowboxing Your Drunk Father”, “You Mind Me” in Anti-Heroin Chic. 2022.

• ”Menudo Poem”, “The Door in the Back of Your Neck”, “Tamarind Soda” in Door is a Jar. 2022.

• Three poems in The Jack Straw Writer Anthology. 2022.

• ”Sexually Explicit Skywriting” in The Fourth River. 2022.

• ”Primo Alonzo” in Cordite Poetry Review. 2021.

• ”Half-Brown Kid Writes a Poem” in Warm Milk. 2021.

• ”How I Learned to Roll My Rs” in What They Leave Behind: A Latinx Anthology. 2021.

• ”Don’t Believe The Doctors” in Apricity. 2021.

• ”Dead Father Resurrects in an Azteca”, “Practice Girls”, “Abuela and Friends, Laredo, TX 1971” in Sky Island Journal. 2021.

Select Prose

• “In The Near Future, After The Last Last War” in Infrarrealista Review. 2024.

• ”Breakfast with Mictlantecuhtli” in The Pinch. 2023.

• ”Another Day in Sales” in Hippocampus. 2023.

• ”A Reading From the Book of My Life” in So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. 2022.

• ”A Bullfight Outside Mazatlán” in The Westchester Review. 2022. (Nominee, Best of the Net)

• ”The Masked Rider” in hex. 2022. (Nominee, Best of the Net)

• ”Yelton John” in Necessary Fiction. 2022.

• ”Take Me Somewhere Nice” in The Vestal Review. 2022. (Nominee, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses)

• ”El Camino” in Blue Earth Review. 2021. (Winner, Blue Earth Review Flash Fiction Contest)

• ”Once a Creature and This Was Its Skeleton” in Peatsmoke. 2021. (Nominee, Best Small Fictions)

• ”The Red Cascarón” in Tilted House. 2021.

• ”A Boy Named Neither” in Noctua Review. 2021.

• ”Seafaring in Minnesota” with Abby Mendelson in Litro. 2015.

• ”Return of the Hunger Artists” with Abby Mendelson in Litro. 2015.

• ”Frozen River” with Abby Mendelson in Atticus Review. 2015.

• ”Jumpers” with Abby Mendelson in Burrow Press. 2015.

• ”Blood Red” with Abby Mendelson in Fiction Southeast. 2014.

• ”The Big One” with Abby Mendelson in Lime Hawk. 2014. (Nominee, Best of the Net)

Workshops & Residencies

• Poetry. The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Gambier, OH. 2023.

• Poetry Fellow. Jack Straw Writers Program. Seattle, WA. 2022.