VINCENT RENDONI

Vincent Rendoni is the author of three poetry collections: A Grito Contest in the Afterlife (Catamaran, 2022), Dead Chicano Mixtape (Red Hen Press, forthcoming 2027), and No Metal or Age Harder Than This (Cornerstone, forthcoming 2028.) He was the winner of the 2022 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets, selected by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Dorianne Laux. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series, Ploughshares, AGNI, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Quarterly West, and december. Currently, he is a Seattle Arts and Lectures Writer in Residence at Garfield High School.

BOOKS

• No Metal or Age Harder Than This, Cornerstone Press, 2028. (Forthcoming)

• Dead Chicano Mixtape, Red Hen Press, 2027. (Forthcoming)

• A Grito Contest in the Afterlife, Catamaran, 2022.

IN THE WORLD

• A Reading of “1985” for the Academy of American Poets, 2026.

• Seattle Arts and Lectures: Writers-in-the-Schools (WITS) Resident, Seattle, WA, 2024–Present.

• To Never Have Risked Our Lives: An AGNI Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing, Brookline Booksmith, Boston, MA, 2024.

• Jack Straw x Lowell Elementary School Poetry and Song Project, Seattle, WA, 2024.

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

• Interview with The Hive Poetry Collective, 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.

• Jack Straw Writer Resident, Seattle, WA, 2022–2023.

POETRY

• “The Sound a Black Hole Makes,” “My Father Confronts Death” in Ploughshares, 2028. (Forthcoming)

• “Coping with Nostalgia,” “Holy Communion” in The Fiddlehead, 2027. (Forthcoming)

• “The Ballad of Charlie Oso” in The Greensboro Review, 2026. (Forthcoming)

• “The Ages of Man” in New Letters, 2026. (Forthcoming)

• “Random-Fact Social Media Account Becomes Sentient” in The Aftershock Review, 2026. (Forthcoming)

• “Elegy for a Used-Car Salesman” in OneArt, 2026. Digital.

• “Committee of Vultures” in PHIL LIT, 2026. Digital.

• “Fun Family Anecdote," “Horse Facts” in Boudin / McNeese Review, 2026, Digital.

• “Hunter Gatherer, c. 1997 / A National Geographic Portrait” in Santa Clara Review, 2026, Print.

• “The Suburbs” in The Atticus Review, 2026, Digital.

• “Childhood Nostalgia” in Harvard Review, 2026, Print.

• “1985” in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series, 2026, Digital.

• “Day of the Dead” in Copper Nickel, 2026, Print.

• “Mating Call Of The Last Wild Jaguar In The United States” in En•Trance Journal, 2025, Digital. (Nominee, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses)

• “My Sister and I Try and Remember the Sound of Our Father’s Voice” in Huizache, 2025, Print.

• “A Haibun for White Center, Washington” in Tahoma Literary Review, 2025, Digital.

• “Subject Lines from Democratic Fundraisers in an Election Year” in Bodega, 2025, Digital.

• “A Summer Birthday in Early Middle Age" in Santa Fe Writers Project, 2025, Digital.

• “Arcoíris” in The Pinch, 2025, Print.

• “Pittsburgh, 2010," ”Sapporo, 2023” in like a field, 2025, Digital.

• “Lake Chelan, 1989” in Moss., 2025, Print.

• “Murcielagos” in december, 2024, Print.

• “Cleaning My Mother’s Garage After She Downsized,” “Attack of the 50-Foot Abuela” in Alaska Quarterly Review, 2024, Print and Digital. (“Attack of the 50-Foot Abuela”, Nominee, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses)

• “Voice of God” in The Pinch, 2024, Digital.

• “Weenies Con Huevos,” “The Year Nobody Died” in The Pleiades, 2024, Print. (“Weenies Con Huevos”, Nominee, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses)

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

• “A Moment of Tenderness” in Aquifer: The Florida Review, 2024, Digital. (Nominee, Best of the Net)

• “The Unwritten Rules of Animating Speedy Gonzales,” “Whenever I Say I’m Mexican” in AGNI, 2024, Print. (“The Unwritten Rules of Animating Speedy Gonzales”, Nominee, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses)

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

• "Primo Alonzo Gets a Job” in Sonora Review, 2024, Digital.

• “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, Print.

• “Longacres” in Ghost City Review, 2024, Digital.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• ”Forgiveness” in Quarterly West, 2022, Digital.

• Three poems in Ice Queen Magazine, 2022, Digital. (“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, Digital.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PROSE

• “Trout Fishing in America” in Shenandoah, 2027. (Forthcoming)

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

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

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

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

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

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

• ”Yelton John” in Necessary Fiction, 2022, Digital.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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