John Paul Jaramillo

John Paul Jaramillo is the author of the novels Carlos Montoya and Little Mocos and the story collection The House of Order. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Acentos Review, Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art, riverSedge, Somos en Escrito, and other publications. Carlos Montoya was named a finalist for the 2024 International Latino Book Awards and received an Honorable Mention for the Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino Focused Fiction Book Award. The House of Order was a 2013 International Latino Book Award finalist, and that same year Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature named Jaramillo one of its Top 10 New Latino Authors to Watch and Read. In 2024, he received the Mayor’s Award for the Arts as an Individual Literary Artist. Born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado, he is a professor of English at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois.