Roberto Tejada is the author of poetry collections that include Full Foreground (2012), Exposition Park (2010), Mirrors for Gold (2006), and selected poems in Spanish translation, Todo en el ahora (2015), as well as a cultural poetics of the Americas, Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (2019). An art historian, he has published National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (2009), a monograph on pioneering Chicana conceptual artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz (2009), and such catalog essays as “Los Angeles Snapshots” in Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980 (Hammer Museum, 2011). He is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing and Art History at the University of Houston.