Farid Matuk

Farid Matuk is the author of Redolent (Singing Saw Press, 2021); The Real Horse (University of Arizona Press, 2018); This Is a Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010); and My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta Press, 2013). Matuk is also the translator from the Spanish of The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist (Graywolf, 2024) by the Peruvian poet Tilsa Otta.

The recipient of grants and residencies from Headlands Center for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation, they are an associate professor in the department of English at the University of Arizona. They live on unceded lands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui peoples.