Oliver de la Paz

Poetry

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Oliver de la Paz has written four poetry collections: Names above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Post Subject: A Fable, and Requiem for the Orchard, winner of the Akron Prize for poetry. He also co-edited A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry with Stacey Lynn Brown.

De la Paz’s work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Chattahoochee Review, and in anthologies, including Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. He has been the recipient of an NYFA Fellowship Award and a GAP grant from Artist Trust. He co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American poetry, and serves on the Association of Writers and Writing Programs board of trustees.

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Festival Years: 2018

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