Edwin Torres is a New York City native and resident of Beacon, New York. He is the editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press) and the author of 15 poetry collections including; Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (from Roof Books, which was awarded a 2022 American Book Award), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave Books), among several others.
Anthologies include: The Difference Is Spreading: 50 Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (Nightboat), New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archives (UPenn Press), Poets In The 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement (Wesleyan University Press), Who Will Speak For America (Temple University Press), among many others.
He has taught his process-based workshops at universities across the country including Naropa University, Bard College, University of Pennsylvania, and at Columbia University where he continues to teach as an adjunct since October 2021. He also works as a freelance graphic designer and has a BA in Graphic Design from Pratt Institute.