Manuel Paul Lopez
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | San Diego, California |
| Introduction | Manuel Paul Lopez was born and raised in the U.S.-Mexican border region of El Centro, California, and received degrees from the University of California, San Diego and San Francisco State University. His work has been published in Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingue, ZYZZYVA, Hanging Loose, and Rattle, among others, and anthologized in Roque Dalton Redux (Cedar Hill Publications). Lopez has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. With his wife, he currently lives in San Diego. López's forthcoming collection of poetry is called The Yearning Feed, which was the winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry, University of Notre Dame Press. His first book entitled Death of a Mexican and other Poems was published by Bear Star Press in 2006 and was awarded the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. He is also the author of the chapbook, 1984, Amsterdam Press. |