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Robert Vasquez is a Chicano/Latino poet , writer and teacher.
Career
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Born to working-class parents, Vasquez was raised in California's Central Valley .
Education
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He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University at Fresno and a Master of Fine Arts in English from the University of California, Irvine . He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing for two years at Stanford University .
Awards
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Vasquez's poetry has received various awards, including three Academy of American Poets prizes, three National Society of Arts and Letters awards, and a National Writers Union award.
In 2004 he was the inaugural judge for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize .[1]
Teaching
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He has taught at Western Michigan University and University of California, Davis and University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently teaches at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, CA . In his creative writing courses, he focuses on Freudian theory in student writing.
Publications
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Books
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He is the author of At the Rainbow (University of New Mexico Press ) winner of the James Duval Phelan Award and the chapbook , Braille for the Heart , (Momotombo Press, 2007).
Journals
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Vasquez's poetry has been published in various journals including The Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Missouri Review The New England Review The Notre Dame Review , Parnassas: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares The Village Voice
Anthologies
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After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties edited by Ray Gonzalez, American Religious Poetry: An Anthology Edited by Harold Bloom, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age, California the Beautiful, The Geography of Home, Highway 99, How Much Earth, Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State, Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets, Proud Harvest, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California, and Writing Home: Award-Winning Literature from the New West.
References
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^ "Winner 2004" . Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize website . Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame. Retrieved September 6, 2012 .
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