Smith, and Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and African-American author Jacqueline Woodson. He retired his monthly column on Latinx literature for NBC-Latino online at the end of 2019. On March 30, 2016, González was named, along with 9 other prominent writers, critic-at-large at the L.A. Times. He also served single terms on the Board of Trustees of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). and on the Board of Governors of the Poetry Society of America (PSA). As of 2018, he is a member of The Center for Fiction Writers Council and serves on the board of Zoeglossia: A Community for Poets with Disabilities. On December 6, 2016, González was celebrated for his work and literary activism at Poets House. The speakers at his tribute included Eduardo C. Corral, Ada Limón, Natalie Diaz, Saeed Jones, and the Poet Laureate of the United States, Juan Felipe Herrera. As of 2018, González sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Machete Series (Ohio State University Press), which "showcases fresh stories, innovative forms, and books that break new aesthetic ground in nonfiction—memoir, personal and lyric essay, literary journalism, cultural meditations, short shorts, hybrid essays, graphic pieces, and more—from authors whose writing has historically been marginalized, ignored, and passed over". As of 2019, he is faculty of the Randolph College Low-Res MFA in creative writing. As of 2020, González serves as the new editor of the University of Arizona Press Camino del Sol Latinx Literary Series. His advisory board includes the notable writers Francisco Cantú, Sandra Cisneros, Eduardo C. Corral, Jeannine Capó Crucet, Angie Cruz, Natalie Diaz, Aracelis Girmay, Ada Limón, Jaime Manrique, Justin Torres, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Helena María Viramontes. As of 2021, González serves on the editorial board of the Immigrant Writing Series at Black Lawrence Press, alongside Abayomi Animashaun, Sun Yung Shin, and Ewa Chrusciel. Published works Full-length poetry collections To the Boy Who Was Night (Four Way Books, 2023), The Book of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2019), , Unpeopled Eden (Four Way Books, 2013), , Black Blossoms (Four Way Books, 2011), , Other Fugitives and Other Strangers (Tupelo Press, 2006), So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks (University of Illinois Press, 1999), , Poetry chapbook Our Lady of the Crossword (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2015) Bilingual children's books Antonio’s Card/ La Tarjeta de Antonio (Children's Book Press, 2005) Soledad Sigh-Sighs/ Soledad Suspiros (Children's Book Press, 2003). Early reader