Bobby Byrd

Poet

El Paso, TX
Texas US

Author's Bio

Bobby Byrd was the cofounder and publisher of Cinco Punto Press in El Paso, Texas. The author of the poetry collections White Panties, Dead Friends and Other Bits & Pieces of Love (2006) and Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary (2014), Byrd died at the age of eighty on July 11, 2022.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots and Grafitti from la Frontera (Cinco Puntos Press, 2003)
,
The Late Great Mexican Border: Reports from a Disappearing Line (Cinco Puntos Press, 1996)
Books:
Otherwise, My Life Is Ordinary (Cinco Puntos Press, 2014)
,
White Panties, Dead Friends and Other Bits & Pieces of Love (Cinco Puntos Press, 2006)
,
The Price of Doing Business in Mexico (Cinco Puntos Press, 1998)
,
On the Transmigration of Souls in El Paso (Cinco Puntos Press, 1993)
,
Get Some Fuses for the House (North Atlantic Books, 1987)
Prizes won: 

NEA Fellowship, D.H. Lawrence Fellowship, International Fellowship funded by NEA and Belles Artes of Mexico, Lannan Fellowship for Cultural Freedom

More Information

Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Memphis, TN
Tennessee
Raised in: 
Memphis, TN
Tennessee
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Last update: Jul 29, 2022