Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora is an award-winning Salvadoran-American poet and activist.Early life
Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine, joining his parents in California.Education
He earned a BA at the University of California-Berkeley and an MFA at New York University and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.Career
Zamora's chapbook Nueve Años Inmigrantes/Nine Immigrant Years won the 2011 Organic Weapon Arts Contest, and his first poetry collection, Unaccompanied, was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press. His poetry can be found in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2013, Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, Ploughshares, and Poetry.Honors
Zamora's honors include Barnes & Noble Writer for Writer's Award, Meridian Editors’ Prize, and the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Zamora has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, CantoMundo, Colgate University, The Frost Place, MacDowell Colony, The Macondo Writers Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing, and Yaddo. In 2017, Zamora was awarded the Narrative Prize for "Sonoran Song," "To the President-Elect," and "Thoughts on the Anniversary of My Crossing the Sonoran Desert".Activism
Zamora was a founder, with poets Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and Christopher Soto, of the Undocupoets campaign which eliminated citizenship requirements from major first poetry book prizes in the United States.Books
- Nueve Años Inmigrantes/Nine Immigrant Years Organic Weapon Arts, 2012., – chapbook
- Unaccompanied, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2017.,
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