Anthony Madrid is the author of four length collections, Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise (Canarium Books 2023), There Was an Old Man with a Springbok (Prelude, 2019), Try Never (Canarium Books, 2017), and I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say (Canarium Books, 2012), as well as two chapbooks, The Getting Rid (Tammy Books, 2016) and The 580 Strophes (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2009). His poems have also appeared in Poetry, Lana Turner, Boston Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. He lives in Victoria, Texas.

"Anthony Madrid’s debut collection of poetry, I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say, is the poetic equivalent of a Bollywood dance routine: rambunctiously over the top, colorful, humorous, and, even if by virtue of its own audacious strangeness, a thrill to witness." —Stephan Delbos, B O D Y