Eduardo C. Corral's first book, Slow Lightning, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2011. His second book, Guillotine, has been published by Graywolf Press in 2020. He's the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize and the Hodder Fellowship, both from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University.