Paul Martínez Pompa is the author of My Kill Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009),[1] which was selected by Martín Espada for the 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.[2] His chapbook Pepper Spray was published by Momotombo Press in 2006.[3] Martinez Pompa's poetry and prose have been anthologized in Telling Tongues and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. He earned degrees from the University of Chicago and Indiana University, where he served as a poetry editor for Indiana Review.