Roberto Montes is the author of I Don't Know Do You named one of the Best Books of 2014 by NPR and a finalist for the 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from The Publishing Triangle. His poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Literary Review, Whiskey Island, Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color, Apogee Journal, and elsewhere. A new chapbook, Grievances, is forthcoming from the Atlas Review TAR chapbook series in late 2016.