Ruben Quesada
Ruben Quesada is a Latino-American poet and professor at Eastern Illinois University, where he teaches English and creative writing.[1]
Quesada spent his childhood and adolescent years in South Central Los Angeles.[2] His mother immigrated from Costa Rica in the 1970s, and, according to Quesada, "it was she who always told me that an education was the greatest gift I could give myself."[3] He received an MFA in creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and a Ph.D. in English at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Next Extinct Mammal (Greenhouse Review Press, 2011), which "revels in the grounded, specific names and places of his California childhood, and invites them to join Zeus and Aphrodite in the pantheon of poetic allusion", and translator of Luis Cernuda: Exiled from the Throne of Night (Aureole Press, 2008).[4] He is currently working on an anthology entitled Latino Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming).
Dr. Quesada's work has earned him a Pushcart Prize nomination in poetry; his poetry and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The California Journal of Poetics, Superstition Review, Guernica, and Cimarron Review, among others. In addition, he is founding editor of Codex Journal, a CantoMundo fellow, poetry editor at The Cossack Review, and co-founder of Stories & Queer.[5]
References
- ↑ Ruben Quesada, Eastern Illinois University, 2015, retrieved 3 December 2015
- ↑ Ruben Quesada, Poetry Foundation, 2015, retrieved 3 December 2015
- ↑ Quesada, Ruben (2015), The Road Taken, Origins Journal, retrieved 3 December 2015
- ↑ Calderwood, Brent (4 January 2012), ‘Next Extinct Mammal’ by Ruben Quesada, Lambda Literary, retrieved 3 December 2015
- ↑ Ruben Quesada, Poetry Editor, Cobalt Review, 2015, retrieved 3 December 2015
External links
- Author's website
- Profile at Poetry Foundation
- A poem "On Witness" by Quesada at Superstition Review
- Poems by Quesada at BOAAT Press