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Location	Brownsville, Texas, United States
Introduction	Rodney Gomez works as a public transportation planner in Weslaco, Texas. He holds a BA from Yale, an MA in philosophy from Arizona State University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas - Pan American. He also studied at Cornell Law School, Rice University’s PhD program in philosophy, and UC-Berkeley. He is a Canto Mundo fellow and was a finalist for the Andres Montoya Prize from the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, a finalist for the NANOFiction Prize, and an associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. His poems have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies including Denver Quarterly, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Barrow Street, The Literary Review, Nimrod, Salt Hill, The Pinch, The Chained Haynaku Anthology, and the forthcoming A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. He lives in Brownsville, Texas with his wife Georgina and several pets.

Location

Brownsville, Texas, United States

Introduction

Rodney Gomez works as a public transportation planner in Weslaco, Texas. He holds a BA from Yale, an MA in philosophy from Arizona State University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas - Pan American. He also studied at Cornell Law School, Rice University’s PhD program in philosophy, and UC-Berkeley. He is a Canto Mundo fellow and was a finalist for the Andres Montoya Prize from the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, a finalist for the NANOFiction Prize, and an associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. His poems have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies including Denver Quarterly, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Barrow Street, The Literary Review, Nimrod, Salt Hill, The Pinch, The Chained Haynaku Anthology, and the forthcoming A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. He lives in Brownsville, Texas with his wife Georgina and several pets.