José (Tony) Antonio Alcántara is the author of the debut poetry collection The Bitten World: Poems (Tebot Bach, 2022). His poetry has appeared in American Life in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, 32 Poems, The Slowdown, and the anthologies, The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy, and America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience. His poem “Divorce” won the 2021 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle. His poem "To A Friend Who Does Not Believe In God" was selected as a Cantor Prize Finalist in 2022. He has worked as a bookseller, mailman, commercial fisherman, electrician, baker, carpenter, studio photographer, door-to-door salesman, and math teacher. He lives in western Colorado and wherever he happens to pitch his tent.