José Olivarez is an author, poet and educator from Calumet City, Illinois, U.S.[1] His first full collection of poetry is Citizen Illegal, published by Haymarket Books. Citizen Illegal was shortlisted for the 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.[2] His second poetry collection Promises of Gold, with a Spanish translation by David Ruano, was published by Macmillan Publishers.
Jose Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, and he graduated from Harvard University.[1]
Olivarez's work has been featured in the New York Times, the Paris Review, and Poetry Magazine, among others.[3] In 2014, he co-authored the collection Home Court.[4] Haymarket Books published his first full collection, Citizen Illegal, in 2018. Citizen Illegal was shortlisted for the $75,000 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.[2] MacMillan Publishers released his second collection, Promises of Gold, in 2023. He is co-editor, along with Willie Perdomo and Felicia Chavez, of the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext.[5]
He has received fellowships from several organizations, including a 2016 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship[6] and a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.[7]
Olivarez worked for the writing and education organizations Urban Word in New York[8] and Young Chicago Authors, which produces the youth poetry festival, Louder than a Bomb.[9] Olivarez co-hosts the podcast The Poetry Gods.[3]
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