FALL 2017 Visiting Writer: Javier Zamora
Poetry Reading at Humboldt State University
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L I B R A R Y F I S H B O W L
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F R E E & O P E N T O T H E P U B L I C
Part of the Campus Dialogue on Race
Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. Both his father and mother fled El Salvador in attempts to escape the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992). In 1999, Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His book Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, Fall 2017), explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family. Zamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University (Olive B. O’Connor), MacDowell, Macondo, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. In 2016, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign.
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N O V E M B E R 2 , 2 0 1 7
L I B R A R Y F I S H B O W L
3 : 0 0 P M
F R E E & O P E N T O T H E P U B L I C
Part of the Campus Dialogue on Race
Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. Both his father and mother fled El Salvador in attempts to escape the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992). In 1999, Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His book Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, Fall 2017), explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family. Zamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University (Olive B. O’Connor), MacDowell, Macondo, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. In 2016, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign.
Click here for information on requesting disability-related accommodations.
