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by José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes

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This piece is part of our Fall/Winter 2020 print issue.

José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes

JOSÉ EDMUNDO OCAMPO REYES was born and raised in the Philippines, José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes is the author of the chapbook Present Values (Backbone Press, 2018), winner of the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club. His poems have previously appeared in various Philippine and U.S. journals and anthologies, most recently in Rattle: Poets Respond, Scoundrel Time, and The Powow River Poets Anthology II (Able Muse Press, 2020).

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