Octavio R. González is the Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities, in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley College. His poetry and creative nonfiction appear in Puerto Del Sol, Zócalo Public Square, Lambda Literary, The Latino Book Review, The Arlington Literary Journal, OCHO, Anomaly, HIV Here and Now, and La Guagua Poetry Anthology. Poems from Limerence were finalists and long-listed for the Oscar Wilde Poetry Award (2021) and Palette Poetry’s “Love & Eros” Prize (2022). His first poetry collection, The Book of Ours, was a selection of the Letras Latinas

chapbook series at the University of Notre Dame (2009). Limerence is his first full-length collection, part of the Queer Mojo series at Rebel Satori Press (2023). González speaks and recites at venues far and wide, including the Bryant Park and KGB Bar in NYC, Fabulosa Books in S.F., the Suzy Newhouse Humanities Center at Wellesley, NPR’s WBUR station, the Quintessential Listening podcast, and Ashoka University in New Delhi.

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