Oliver de la Paz is the author of three collections of poetry, Names Above Houses, and Furious Lullaby, both published by Southern Illinois University Press, and Requiem for the Orchard, published by the University of Akron Press. He is a co-chair for the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the creation, cultivation, and promotion of Asian American Poetry. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship Award, his work has appeared or is forthcoming from many journals like the Quarterly West, The Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation and Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. He teaches creative writing at Western Washington University.

Furious Lullaby (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), Names Above Houses (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001)

Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from The Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (Norton, 2008), Poetry 30: Thirtysomething American Thirtysomething Poets (Mammoth Books, 2005), Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois Press, 2004), Screaming Monkeys (Coffee House Press, 2003), Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Literature (New Rivers Press, 2000)

Asian Pacific American Journal, Border Senses, Borderlands, Cimarron Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Columbia, Controlled Burn, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crate, Cream City Review, Drunken Boat, Hanging Loose, Hayden's Ferry Review, Image, Indiana Review, Marlboro Review, MiPOesias, National Poetry Review, North American Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Passages North, Perihelion, Pleiades, Quarterly West, Rhino Magazine, Runes: A Review of Poetry, Siren, Sonora Review, Sou'wester, The Literary Review, Third Coast, Tin House, Westwind Review