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Rigoberto González was born in Bakersfield, California and raised in Michoacán, Mexico. The son and grandson of migrant farm workers, he is the author of seventeen books and the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina, and Latino Writing and Xicano Duende: A Select Anthology of Alurista's poetry. The recipient of Lannan, Guggenheim, NEA, NYFA, and USA Rolón fellowships, winner of the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the American Book Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the PEN/Voelcker Award in poetry, he is critic-at-large for the L.A. Times, contributing editor for Poets and Writers Magazine, on the Board of Directors of the Poetry Society of America (PSA), and Zoeglossia: A Community for Writers with Disabilities, and on the Writers Council for The Center for Fiction. Currently, he's Distinguished Professor of English and director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Rutgers-Newark. He lives in Newark, NJ.
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