Cooley Windsor’s writing has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, The Blink, and Eleven Eleven, among others. He teaches in the MFA Program at California College of the Arts, and is codirector of the annual Meant to Be Seen Festival at the Eureka Theater in San Francisco. He was one of the founding board members of Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates, an environmental-justice organization focused on the southeast section of San Francisco. He is affiliated with the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito.