Edgar Gabriel Silex

Edgar Silex is a Tecuexe and Nicarao/Nican Nahua poet. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland.

Silex is the author of Borrowing Directions from the Dark (Poetry Northwest Editions, 2026) and Acts of Love (Northwestern University Press, 2004); and Through All the Displacements (Northwestern University Press, 1995).

His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Maryland State Arts Council Artist Grant, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar Fellowship. A board member of Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po), Silex lives in Baltimore.