Roberto Tejada has published, most recently, a volume of essays, manifestos, and histories in the cultural poetics of the Americas, Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (Noemi, 2019); and the four-part “Diagonal and Self-Possessed: Group-Portrait with Liminal Figures,” featured on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet website (June 2018). He is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing and Art History at the University of Houston.