Richard Vargas

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

1717 Gabaldon Dr NW Apt B

Albuquerque, NM 87104

Email:

picodegallo54@yahoo.com

Bio:

Graduated with MFA (awarded with distinction) from Creative Writing Program, University of New Mexico, 2010. Currently looking for teaching position in a Creative Writing program. Major themes of my work are social injustice, working class issues, immigration, and standing up to institutionalized racism.

Currently editing/publishing The Más Tequila Review.

Third book, (chosen by Pam Uschuk and William Pitt Root for the Silver Concho poetry series) "Guernica, revisited," has a scheduled publication of Spring, 2014.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Born in:

Compton

Raised in:

Compton/Paramount/Lynwood, CA

Website:

http://www.wix.com/rvargas54/rvargas54 [2]

Prizes won:

July 2011-Hispanic Writers Award, Taos Summer Writers' Conference

July 2011-invited to be a featured reader at Woody Guthrie Festival

May 2011-awarded Community Scholarship to attend National Latino Writers' Conference at the National Hispanic Cultural Center

2010-receieved Editor's Choice Award for poem "baby brother's blues," New Poets of the American West, Many Voices Press.

Identifies as:

Hispanic

Prefers to work with:

Any