Description
Emmy Perez, 2020 Texas Poet Laureate, is the author of the poetry collections With the River on Our Face, Solstice, and the forthcoming Paper america: New and Selected Poems. Her work also appears in anthologies such as Other Musics: New Latina Poetry, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, and a forthcoming Anthology/Handbook for Writing Past the Checkpoints. She has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, United States Artists, and CantoMundo. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Southern California, Perez has been a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop for socially engaged writers since 2008. Currently, she is a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where she also serves as chair of the Department of Creative Writing. Photo: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
Additional information
| Discipline | Words |
|---|---|
| Contact name | Emmy Perez |
| Contact address | 1201 W. University, Edinburg, TX 78539 |
| Phone 1 | 956-665-3435 |
| Phone 2 | |
| Public Performance | $1, 500 – $3, 000 |
| School performance | $1, 500 – $3, 000 |
| Workshop fees | $1, 500 – $3, 000 |
| Travel per diem lodging | $500 – $800 |
| City | McAllen |
| Website | |
| Special audiences | Festivals, Libraries |
