Vincent Antonio Rendoni (he / him / his) is a Seattle-based writer. He is a 2022 Jack Straw Poetry Fellow and the winner of Blue Earth Review’s 2021 Flash Fiction Contest. His book, A Grito Contest in the Afterlife, winner of the 2022 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets is forthcoming with Catamaran Literary Reader Press. His work has appeared / will be appearing in The Sycamore Review, The Vestal Review, The Texas Review, The Westchester Review, Quarterly West, Necessary Fiction and many other venues. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University. He can be found online at www.vincentrendoni.com/writer and @warshingtonian