Urayoán Noel is the author of the books of poetry Hi-Density Politics (BlazeVOX, 2010); Boringkén (Ediciones Callejón/La Tertulia, 2008); Kool Logic/La lógica kool (Bilingual Press, 2005); and Las flores del mall (object-book, 2000). He has translated a number of Latin American and Latino/a poets, and in 2005 he released the performance DVD Kool Logic Sessions (Bilingual Press), a collaboration with musician-composer Monxo López.

His creative and critical writings have appeared in Contemporary Literature; Fence; BOMB; New York Quarterly; and Diasporic Avant-Gardes (Palgrave, 2009); and he is featured in such anthologies as Malditos latinos, malditos sudacas. Poesía hispanoamericana made in USA (México, D.F., El billar de Lucrecia, 2009) and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (Univ. of Arizona Press, 2007).

A contributing editor of Mandorla, Noel has taught workshops at the Millay Colony for the Arts; Urban Word; Acentos; and the University of Puerto Rico; and he has performed nationally and internationally as a solo artist and as part of Spanic Attack. He is currently completing a book-length manuscript on Nuyorican poetry and various translation and performance projects.

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he earned his B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras; his M.A. from Stanford; and his Ph.D. from NYU. He currently divides his time between the South Bronx and upstate New York. Urayoán Noel is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, and serves as faculty supervisor for the online journal Barzakh.