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 in literary publications, such as The Opiate, 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, and Beir Bua Journal. He has published five poetry collections (Indelible Fingerprints, Blood Honey, Cold Comfort House, little punctures, and Blind Turns in the Kitchen Sink), seven poetry chapbooks (Punctures, PeripherieS, Eating Pears on the Rooftop, Golden Calves, Blue, and Brujeria), and one co-authored novel, Escaping Emily.
Currently, he lives in Central Texas with his six dachshunds, working full-time as a professor of English at Central Texas College, as well as part-time at Austin Community College, teaching Composition and Literature (American and British). David has also written two screenplays, Roadkill and Brujo, which have garnered him multiple screenplay, script, and writing awards, domestically and internationally. Other interests also include editing with David having served in various editorial positions for literary magazines, such as The Elixir Magazine, Red Fez, The Temz Review, Good Men’s Project, and Identity Theory, as well as The Argyle Literary Magazine for which he was Founder and Editor-in-Chief.