What Comes Back(originally,Los que regresan)is Peñalosa’s debut for English audiences. He has written four books of poetry, all published in Spanish.Los que regresanwon Mexico’s prestigious Xirau Icaza Poetry Prize in 2017. Peñalosa’s narrative draws inspiration from Mexico City’s history: an ancient lake in the area was drained so cities could be built on the (newly) dry land Javier Peñalosa M. shares a name with his grandfather (Javier Peñalosa Castro), who was also a poet Peñalosa received his MFA in creative writing in Spanish from NYU A 2023 NEA Translation Fellow and winner of the 2019 Words Without Borders Translation Contest, Robin Myers is an acclaimed and prolific Spanish-to-English translator Audience: Fans of narrative poetry, poetry in translation, and bilingual Spanish/English collections; fans of eco-poetry and stories of migration; fans of Mexico City and South America’s poets; fans of surreal or disembodied poetry