Poet C. T. Salazar’s latest book is the poetry collection, John the Baptist Hitchhiking (Acre Books). The book received a starred review from the Library Journal who  called it, “A gorgeous, open-hearted debut.”

Salazar is a Latinx poet and librarian from Mississippi. He is the 2020 recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in poetry.

He is the author of three chapbooks, and his poems have been published in the Rumpus, West Branch, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, 32 Poems, Denver Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.