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Lit & Luz Virtual Keynote Address: Anthony Cody
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Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize, selected by the poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. His debut collection has been honored as a 2022 Whiting Award winner, a 2021 American Book Award winner, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist in Poetry, a 2020 Poets & Writers debut poet, a 2021 PEN America / Jean Stein Award finalist, a L.A. Times Book Award finalist, a California Book Award finalist, and a 2020 Believer Magazine Editor’s longlist in Poetry, as well as a winner of a 2020 Southwest Book Award. He is a CantoMundo fellow from Fresno, California with lineage in both the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl. His poetry has appeared in The Academy of American Poets: Poem-A-Day Series, The Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The Boiler, ctrl+v journal, among others. Anthony co-edited How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Heyday, 2011), as well as co-edited and co-translated Juan Felipe Herrera’s Akrílica (Noemi Press, 2022). He is a graduate of the MFA-Creative Writing Program at Fresno State and has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and Desert Nights, Rising Stars. Anthony’s forthcoming collection, The Rendering, (Omnidawn) will be published in Spring 2023. He is co-publisher of Noemi Press, a poetry editor for Omnidawn, collaborates with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio, and is visiting faculty in poetry at Randolph College's Low Residency MFA Program. For more information, visit www.anthonycody.com.
In partnership with UIC’s Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas
Anthony Cody es autor de Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), ganador del Omnidawn Open Book Prize en 2018, seleccionado por la poeta Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. Su primer libro fue ganador del Whiting Award winner 2022, del American Book Award 2021, finalista del National Book Award de 2020, nombrado poeta debutante por Poets & Writers en 2020, finalista del PEN America / Jean Stein Award 2021, finalista del L.A. Times Book Award, finalista del California Book Award , y nombrado en la longlist de poesía de la Believer Magazine Editor en 2020, así como ganador del Southwest Book Award en 2020. Es becario de CantoMundo de Fresno, California, y con linaje tanto del Programa Bracero como del Dust Bowl. Su poesía ha aparecido en The Academy of American Poets: Poem-A-Day Series, The Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, The Boiler, ctrl+v journal, entre otras. Anthony coeditó How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Heyday, 2011), además de coeditar y co-traducir Akrílica (Noemi Press, 2022) de Juan Felipe Herrera. Se graduó de la Maestría en Escritura Creativa en la Fresno State y ha sido becario de CantoMundo, Community of Writers, y Desert Nights, Rising Stars. El próximo libro de Anthony, The Rendering (Omnidawn), será publicado en la primavera de 2023. Él es co-editor en Noemi Press, editor de poesía en Omnidawn, además de que colabora con Juan Felipe Herrera y la Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio, y es profesor visitante en poesía en el programa MFA de baja residencia del Randolph College. Para más información, visita www.anthonycody.com.
Presentado en colaboración con UIC’s Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas
