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    Cenzontle
    Cenzontle
    Cenzontle
    Ebook111 pages50 minutes

    Cenzontle

    By Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and Brenda Shaughnessy

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    Winner of the 2019 GLCA New Writers Award
    An NPR Best Book of 2018

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateApr 10, 2014
    ISBN9781942683544
    Cenzontle
    Author

    Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

    Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018), winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times, The Paris Review, People Magazine, and PBS Newshour, among others. He lives in Marysville, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program.

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