Jose Padua

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Washington, DC
District Of Columbia US
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Author's Bio

Padua’s first full length book, A Short History of Monsters, was chosen by former poet laureate Billy Collins as the winner of the 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and is now out from the University of Arkansas Press. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in publications such as BombSalon.comBeloit Poetry JournalExquisite CorpseAnother Chicago MagazineUnbearablesCrimes of the Beats, Up is Up, but So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, and others. He has written features and reviews for SalonThe WeeklingsNYPress, Washington City Paper, the Brooklyn Rail, and the New York Times, and has read his work at Lollapalooza, CBGBs, the Knitting Factory, the Public Theater, the Living Theater, the Nuyorican Poets' Café, the St. Mark's Poetry Project, and many other venues. He was a featured reader at the 2012 Split This Rock poetry festival and won the New Guard Review’s 2014 Knightville Poetry Prize.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

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Salon

Poetry

Book:
A Short History of Monsters (University of Arkansas Press, 2019)
Chapbook:
The Complete Failure of Everything (Apathy Press, 1990)
Prizes won: 
  • The Miller Williams Poetry Prize for A Short History of Monsters (2019)
  • The New Guard Knightville Poetry Prize for “Seven and Seven Is” (2014)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Washington, DC
District Of Columbia
Raised in: 
Washington, DC
District Of Columbia
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Last update: Jul 17, 2019