🐆 Yaguareté White
🐆 Yaguareté White
“With lacerating wit and a fearless commitment to the integrity of the line, Báez explodes the intersection of home, history and language.”
— Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives
poet
educator
book critic
Diego Báez is a writer and educator. He is the author of Yaguarete White (Univ. Arizona, 2024), a finalist for the Georgia Poetry Prize and a semifinalist for the Berkshire Prize for Poetry. A fellow at CantoMundo, the Surge Institute, and the Poetry Foundation’s Incubator for Community-Engaged Poets, Báez has served on the boards of the National Book Critics Circle, the International David Foster Wallace Society, and Families Together Co-operative Nursery School. His poems, book reviews, and essays have appeared online and in print. He lives in Chicago and teaches at the City Colleges.