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Curriculum Vita: Vita (pdf 82k)
B.A., English; B.S. Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
M.F.A., Fiction & Literary Translation, Bowling Green State University
Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Modernist and Contemporary Poetry
Latina/o Literature(s)
Performance Practice and Theory
Creative Writing Pedagogy
Literature and Medicine
Literary Writing
Contemporary Poetry
Fiction, and Drama/Performance Art
U.S. Latina/o Literature(s)
The Prose Poem
Founding Member, National Latino Writers' Association (NALWA)
Former President, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
Books:
Autobiography of So-and-so: Poems in Prose (New Issues Press)
Poems of the River Spirit (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Postmortem (University of Georgia Press)
Play:
The Last Bridge/El último puente (staged reading Off-Broadway)
Film: (as co-screenwriter and actor)
To Box Clouds (Migrant Productions)
Poems, Stories, Monologs, Articles: (selected)
Poetry, Parnassus, Exquisite Corpse, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Cream City Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Sentence, Seneca Review, Fourteen Hills
Anthologies (selected):
Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today's Latino Renaissance, The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, American Poetry: The Next Generation, No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets, The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The Southern California Anthology
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