Anthony Cody

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Anthony Cody
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Cody at the Sierra Poetry Festival in 2025
Born
Fresno, California, U.S.
OccupationPoet, editor, educator
LanguageEnglish
Alma mater California State University, Fresno (MFA)
GenrePoetry
Notable worksBorderland Apocrypha (2020)
The Rendering (2023)
Notable awardsFinalist, National Book Award for Poetry (2020)
American Book Award (2021)
Whiting Award (2022)

Anthony Cody is an American poet, editor, and educator from Fresno, California. He is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (2020) and The Rendering (2023). Borderland Apocrypha won the 2021 American Book Award and the 2020 Southwest Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry, the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Cody received a Whiting Award in 2022. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Early life and education

Cody grew up in Fresno, California. [5] Biographical notes published by the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Foundation describe his family lineage as connected to the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl; a 2024 profile by Fresno Pacific University described him as having Irish and Mexican ancestry. [5] [6] [7] He earned an MFA in creative writing from California State University, Fresno. [5]

Career

Cody's debut full-length collection, Borderland Apocrypha, won Omnidawn's 2018 Open Book Prize and was published in 2020. [8] [9] The book addresses anti-Mexican violence, detention, and erasure in the borderlands after the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and does so through documentary, visual, and conceptual forms. [9] [10] [11] Reviewing the collection, Stephanie Burt emphasized its political and conceptual qualities, while Emily Pérez described it as "visual, conceptual, and genre-defying." [10] [11] Borderland Apocrypha was later a finalist for the National Book Award and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and won the American Book Award and Southwest Book Award. [9] [3] [2] [4]

In 2022, he received a Whiting Award. [4]

Cody's second collection, The Rendering, was published by Omnidawn in 2023. [12] Critics described the book as a continuation of his archival and formally experimental practice, turning to the history of the Dust Bowl, climate crisis, and the Anthropocene. [13] [14] [15]

Beyond his own collections, Cody coedited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology and coedited and co-translated Juan Felipe Herrera's Akrílica. [5] [16] [17] [18] He has collaborated with Juan Felipe Herrera's Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio, served as co-publisher of Noemi Press and poetry editor for Omnidawn, and taught in the low-residency MFA program at Randolph College. [5] [17] [19] [20]

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Edited and translated books

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Anthony Cody". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Before Columbus Foundation Announces the Winners of the Forty-Second Annual American Book Awards" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. August 23, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 "Announcing the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. February 10, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Anthony Cody". Whiting Foundation. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "About Anthony Cody". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Anthony Cody". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  7. ↑ Steffen, Wayne (January 22, 2024). "Fresnan Anthony Cody Explores His Latinx Identity, Historical Themes at 2024 Janzen Writers Series". Fresno Pacific University. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  8. 1 2 "Borderland Apocrypha". Omnidawn. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 "Borderland Apocrypha". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  10. 1 2 Burt, Stephanie. "Borderland Apocrypha". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  11. 1 2 Pérez, Emily. "Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody". RHINO. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  12. 1 2 "The Rendering". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  13. ↑ "The Rendering". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  14. ↑ "The Rendering". Publishers Weekly. July 10, 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  15. ↑ Webster, Chaun (June 26, 2023). "The Rendering – Anthony Cody". Full Stop. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  16. ↑ "Anthony Cody". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  17. 1 2 3 "About Noemi". Noemi Press. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  18. 1 2 "Akrílica". Noemi Press. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  19. ↑ "Staff". Omnidawn. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
  20. ↑ "Faculty". Randolph College MFA in Creative Writing. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
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