David Meischen

A Pushcart honoree, with a personal essay in Pushcart Prize XLII, David Meischen is the author of Unbuckled: Poems (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming, 2026) Nopalito, Texas: Stories (University of New Mexico Press 2024) and Caliche Road Poems (Lamar University Press 2024). Anyone’s Son, from 3: A Taos Press, was honored with Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2020. David’s work has appeared in The Common, Copper Nickel, The Gettysburg Review, Naugatuck River Review, The San Pedro River Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and elsewhere. A former juror for the Kimmel Harding Nelson center for the arts, David is an alumnus of the Jentel Arts residency program. Co-founder and Managing Editor of Dos Gatos Press, he lives in Albuquerque, NM with his husband—also his co-publisher and co-editor—Scott Wiggerman.