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Ruben Quesada [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
Chicago, IL
Illinois US
Email: 
contact@rubenquesada.com
Bio: 

Ruben Quesada is the author of Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize, 2023 Editors’ Choice. Dr. Quesada edited the IPPY Gold Medal Award-winning anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (University of New Mexico Press). His poetry and prose appear in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Lambda Literary Review, Southern Humanities Review, Harvard Review and elsewhere. A former board member of the National Book Critics Circle, he is now a Teaching Fellow at the Attic Institute of Arts & Letters. He teaches poetry and literature at Columbia College Chicago, Antioch University’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program and the Pan-European MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Spanish
Born in: 
Los Angeles
Raised in: 
CA
California
Website: 
https://www.rubenquesada.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Brutal Companion, Barrow Street Poetry Prize, 2023 Editors' Choice

Identifies as: 
Hispanic
Latino/Latina/Latinx
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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