Javier Zamora

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Javier Zamora
Zamora, reading at Sacred Heart School, Washington, D.C. 2018
Zamora, reading at Sacred Heart School, Washington, D.C. 2018
BornSan Luis La Herradura, El Salvador
LanguageEnglish, Spanish
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
New York University (MFA)
GenrePoetry, Prose
Notable worksUnaccompanied
Notable awardsWallace Stegner Fellow, NEA Fellow, Lannan Foundation Fellow, Ruth Lilly Fellow, Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University
Website
javierzamora.net

Javier Zamora is a Salvadoran poet and activist.[1]

Early life[]

Zamora was born in San Luis La Herradura, El Salvador[2] and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine, joining his parents in California.[3][1]

Education[]

He earned a BA at the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA at New York University and was a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.[4][1]

Career[]

Zamora's chapbook Nueve Años Inmigrantes/Nine Immigrant Years won the 2011 Organic Weapon Arts Contest, and his first poetry collection, Unaccompanied,[5] was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press. His poetry can be found in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2013, Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry.

Honors[]

Zamora's honors include Barnes & Noble Writer for Writer's Award (2016), Meridian Editors’ Prize, and the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Zamora has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, CantoMundo, Colgate University, The Frost Place,[6] MacDowell Colony, The Macondo Writers Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing, and Yaddo.[7][4] In 2017, Zamora was awarded the Narrative Prize for "Sonoran Song," "To the President-Elect," and "Thoughts on the Anniversary of My Crossing the Sonoran Desert".[8][9]

Activism[]

Zamora was a founder, with poets Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and (AKA Loma), of the Undocupoets campaign which eliminated citizenship requirements from major first poetry book prizes in the United States.[2][10]

Books[]

  • Nueve Años Inmigrantes/Nine Immigrant Years Organic Weapon Arts, 2012. ISBN 9780982710616, OCLC 824739031 – chapbook
  • Unaccompanied, Copper Canyon Press: Port Townsend, 2017. ISBN 9781556595110, OCLC 972237998
  • Solito: A Memoir, Hogarth Books: New York, forthcoming 2022.
In Anthology

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Javier Zamora". Poetry Foundation. June 5, 2018. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Rethinking Poetic Citizenship". Poets & Writers. June 17, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  3. ^ "Javier Zamora – Narrative Magazine". Narrativemagazine.com. April 17, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Art Talk with Poet Javier Zamora". Arts.gov. December 16, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  5. ^ "Copper Canyon Press: Unaccompanied, Poetry by Javier Zamora". Coppercanyonpress.org. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  6. ^ "The Poems of Javier Zamora – Good Times Santa Cruz". Goodtimes.sc. April 10, 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 18, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "Biography". javierzamora.net. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  9. ^ "Narrative Prize". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  10. ^ "Undocupoets Organizers Are Making Headway by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. June 5, 2018. Retrieved June 5, 2018.

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