Nathan Xavier Osorio is the son of a Mexican grocer and Nicaraguan nurse. His debut collection of poetry, Querida (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize selected by Shara McCallum, is a finalist for the California Book Award in Poetry, and was selected by Phillip B. Williams as a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s Norma Faber First Book Award.

He is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave, selected by Oliver De la Paz as a recipient for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship and was selected in 2019 as a semi-finalist for 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest.

He received his PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Literature with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies and Visual Studies and holds an MFA in Poetry and Literary Translation from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. In 2023, he served as the Humanities Institute Public Fellow at the University of California Press and in 2024, he was selected as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine, where he worked with the writer Héctor Tobar on his second book project.

His work has appeared in BOMB, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Boston Review, The Notre Dame Review, U.S. LatinX Art Forum, Public Books, The Slowdown, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. He has been invited to give poetry readings and research talks at Hollins University, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Baruch College in New York City, and elsewhere. His writing and teaching have been supported by fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry Foundation.

Originally from Sylmar, California, he is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.