Francisco Aragón is a Latino poet, editor and writer.

Life

Born in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, Aragón's parents migrated from

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...

in the 1950s. is a graduate of Archbishop Riordan High School. He studied at the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...

and

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

. He earned an MA from the

University of California at Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

and an MFA from the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic university, Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend, Indiana, South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin fo ...

. Aragón directs Letras Latinas, the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the

. He previously edited Momotombo Press. He served on the board of directors of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.

Publications

Aragón's books include ''Puerta del Sol'' (2005), and ''Glow of Our Sweat'' (2010). He edited the groundbreaking anthology ''The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry'' (2007). His poetry and translations have appeared in the anthologies ''Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies'' (2001) and ''Mariposa: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry'' (2008), the journals '' Beltway Poetry Quarterly,

Crab Orchard Review Southern Illinois University (SIU or SIUC) is a public research university in Carbondale, Illinois. Founded in 1869, SIU is the oldest and flagship campus of the Southern Illinois University system. The university enrolls students from all 50 s ...

Chelsea Chelsea or Chelsey may refer to: Places Australia * Chelsea, Victoria Canada * Chelsea, Nova Scotia * Chelsea, Quebec United Kingdom * Chelsea, London, an area of London, bounded to the south by the River Thames ** Chelsea (UK Parliament consti ...

, The Journal, the online journals ''Jacket, Electronic Poetry Review,'' and ''Poetry Daily.''

Awards

Aragón is the winner of an

Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

College Prize and the 2010 Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Literary Arts or Publications from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education. Aragón is a member of the prestigious Macondo Writers Workshop, the workshop founded by

Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, ''The House on Mango Street'' (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, '' Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'' (1991). Her work e ...

. Aragón was also a founding fellow of the CantoMundo writing conference.

References

External links

Official website

on

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Interview with
''Sampsonia Way''
Review of
''Glow of Our Sweat'' at Lambda Literary Review
Poems at
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