Blas Falconer received the 2025 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing Triangle for Rara Avis (Four Way Books, 2024). Born in Virginia, he is also the author of A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press, 2007), The Foundling Wheel (Four Way Books, 2012), and Forgive the Body This Failure (Four Way Books, 2018). He teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University and is editor-in-chief of Poetry International Online. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2011.
