PAUL MARTINEZ POMPA

Paul Martinez Pompa earned his BA at the University of Chicago and his MFA in creative writing at Indiana University, where he served as a poetry editor for the Indiana Review. His chapbook, Pepper Spray, was published by the University of Notre Dame's Momotombo Press in 2006. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Barrow Street, Borderlands, and Rhino and has been anthologized in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry and Telling Tongues: a Latin anthology on language experience. He currently teaches composition and creative writing at Triton College in River Grove, Illinois.