Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan/Guam. He is the author of five collections of poetry and the co-editor of five anthologies. He is a Professor in the English Department and affiliate faculty with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the Indigenous Politics Program at the University of Hawai‘i, Manoa. He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies.