Reyes Ramirez is a Houstonian. Reyes won the 2017 Blue Mesa Review Nonfiction Contest, 2014 riverSedge Poetry Prize and has poems, stories, essays, and reviews (and/or forthcoming) in: Cosmonauts Avenue, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Deep Red Press, The Latinx Archive, december magazine, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Texas Review, TRACK//FOUR, FIVE:2:ONE Magazine, Houston Noir, Gulf Coast Journal, Origins Journal, The Acentos Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. Reyes has received grants from the Houston Arts Alliance, Y.ES Contemporary, and The Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund. He's also been a finalist for several contests, including Cosmonauts Avenue's 2018 fiction prize, december magazine's 2018 poetry prize, Iron Horse Literary Review's and Gold Line Press's 2018 poetry chapbook competitions.