Tomás Baiza

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 Tomás’s 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, and Best American Short Stories anthologies. Sherman Alexie has called Tomás’s writing “painful, scary, hilarious, incredibly vulnerable, and powerful in equal measure.” Tomás 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. When he is not writing, Tomás is running trails, sharpening knives, or obsessing over bonsai trees.