Tomás Baiza is originally from San José, California, and now finds himself in Boise, Idaho. He is the author of the novel, Delivery: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery, and the mixed-genre collection A Purpose to Our Savagery. Delivery was selected as the 2024 Treasure Valley Reads featured novel, and his manuscript Mexican Teeth won the 2024 Eliud Martínez Prize and will appear on Inlandia Press in 2026. Tomás has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net, Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize. Sherman Alexie has called Tomás’s writing “painful, scary, hilarious, incredibly vulnerable, and powerful in equal measure.” He has fenced in Italy, been rescued by helicopter from the Sierra Nevada, was escorted by security out of the Pebble Beach & Tennis Club, fended off wild dogs while hitchhiking in rural Morelos, México, and once delivered a dozen pizzas to a Klingon-themed orgy at a sci-fi convention.