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Robert Vasquez is a Chicano/Latino poet, writer and teacher.
Career edit
Born to working-class parents, Vasquez was raised in California's Central Valley.
Education edit
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University at Fresno and a Master of Fine Arts in English from the University of California, Irvine. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing for two years at Stanford University.
Awards edit
Vasquez's poetry has received various awards, including three Academy of American Poets prizes, three National Society of Arts and Letters awards, and a National Writers Union award.
In 2004 he was the inaugural judge for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.[1]
Teaching edit
He has taught at Western Michigan University and University of California, Davis and University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently teaches at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, CA. In his creative writing courses, he focuses on Freudian theory in student writing.
Publications edit
Books edit
He is the author of At the Rainbow (University of New Mexico Press) winner of the James Duval Phelan Award and the chapbook, Braille for the Heart, (Momotombo Press, 2007).
Journals edit
Vasquez's poetry has been published in various journals including The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Missouri Review, The New England Review, The Notre Dame Review, Parnassas: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares, VerseDaily.com, and The Village Voice.
Anthologies edit
After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties edited by Ray Gonzalez, American Religious Poetry: An Anthology Edited by Harold Bloom, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age, California the Beautiful, The Geography of Home, Highway 99, How Much Earth, Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State, Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets, Proud Harvest, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California, and Writing Home: Award-Winning Literature from the New West.
References edit
- ^ "Winner 2004". Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize website. Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
External links edit
- Author's blog
- La Bloga spotlight on Vasquez
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