Jose B. Gonzalez is a

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. Gonzalez authored the poetry collections, ''Toys Made of Rock'' (Bilingual Review Press, 2015), and ''When Love Was Reels'' (Arte Public Press, 2017), and with John S. Christie, served as Co-Editor of Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature. He was born in

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in 1967, where he lived until he was eight. After his father and then his mother migrated to the U.S., he rejoined his family when he migrated to

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in 1976. He has appeared as a guest poet on

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and American Latino TV and has been a contributor to

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. His poetry has been published in ''Quercus Review, Callaloo, The Teacher's Voice, Palabra, Acentos Review'', and ''Colere'', and anthologies including ''Coloring Book'', ''Nantucket: A Collection'', and ''Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature'', and ''Ocho''. He founded LatinoStories.com. He is a graduate of New London High School, and holds a Bachelor of Science from

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, a Master's in Teaching English from

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, and a Ph.D. in English from the

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. He is a professor of English at the

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Awards

He is the recipient of the following awards: * 2003 National Association of Multicultural Education CT Faculty of the Year * 2006 NEATE Poet of the Year * 2009

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(AAHHE) Outstanding Latino Faculty of the Year * 2011-2012

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* 2015 Latino De Oro (Arts and Culture) * 2015 International Latino Book Award Finalist * 2018 Connecticut Book Award Finalist (Poetry) for ''When Love Was Reels'' * 2019 Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development Artistic Excellence Fellowship

Works

Poetry collections

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Editor

Poems in Anthologies

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Speaking career

Gonzalez has been a featured speaker throughout the country including at

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(Kansas),

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(Corpus Christi, Texas), Cornell University

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, The Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC, at festivals such as the Newburyport Literary Festival, and the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. He has presented his poetry in countries such as El Salvador and Spain.

References

External links

Personal site

LatinoStories.com
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