David Estringel is Latinx author, poet, English professor, award-winning screenwriter, and Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English Studies and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, as well as a Women and Gender Studies graduate certificate, from the University of Texas. David’s poetry, short fiction, and CNF can be found (or are forthcoming) in literary publications, such as The Opiate, BULL, Sledgehammer Lit, Cowboy Jamboree, Roi Faineant Literary Press, Cephalopress, Fahmidan Journal, The Milk House, The Honest Ulsterman, Drunk Monkeys, South Broadway Ghost Society, Red Fez, Literary Heist, Terror House Magazine, Expat Press, Dreich, Ethel, Street Cake Magazine, Alien Buddha Press, Anxiety Press, Finishing Line Press, Literary Heist, Somos en escrito, Apocalypse Confidential, Fevers of the Mind, and Beir Bua Journal. He has written/published seven poetry/hybrid collections (Indelible Fingerprints, Blood Honey, Cold Comfort House, little punctures, Blind Turns in the Kitchen Sink, Brujeria, and Down the Bermuda Highway), six poetry chapbooks (Punctures, PeripherieS, Eating Pears on the Rooftop, Golden Calves, and Blue), and one co-authored novel, Escaping Emily.
Currently, David lives in Central Texas with his six dachshunds and works full-time as a Professor of English, teaching Composition and Literature (American and British). He has also written two screenplays, Roadkill and Brujo, which have garnered him multiple screenplay, script, and writing awards, domestically and internationally. Currently, David is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Argyle Literary Magazine and Blood+Honey, as well as Assistant Editor at Identity Theory.