Description
Octavio Quintanilla is the 2025 Texas Poet Laureate and the author of the poetry collections, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets (University of Arizona Press, 2025). Octavio is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival, VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University and was recently inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. Photo: Paris Quintanilla
IG: @writeroctavioquintanilla
Twitter: @OctQuintanilla
Additional information
| Discipline | Words |
|---|---|
| City | San Antonio |
| School audiences | Elementary, High, Middle |
| Contact name | Octavio Quintanilla |
| Contact address | San Antonio TX |
| Public Performance | $500 – $3,000 |
| School Performance | $500 – $3,000 |
| Workshop Fees | $500 – $3,000 |
| Travel Per Diem Lodging | $150 – $1,500 |
| Website | |
| Special audiences | Festivals, Hands-on activities, Libraries, People with disabilities, Schools, Seniors |
| Venue size | Larger, Medium, Smaller, Unplugged |
