Caleb Delos-Santos (he/him) is a graduate student and teaching assistant in the MFA program for poetry at UMSL. He consults writing at UMSL's Writing Center and works with First-Year Composition courses.
Caleb has published poetry with over twenty literary magazines and has won three creative writing awards, including the Esselstrom Prize and William Carlin Slattery Memorial Award for his poetry. Last year, Kelsay Books published Caleb’s fourth poetry collection When Will You Water Me? And most recently, Caleb earned his MA in English Literature from SIUE in Spring 2025. When not reading or writing, Caleb plays video games, watches tv with his wife, and messes with his cat Cookie.
