This interview with William Archila is part of the Latino Stories series featuring conversations with Latinx authors. The questions that follow grew out of Archila’s recent visit to the CHI 158 course, Central American Poetry in the United States, which Salvatierra teaches at UC Davis in the Chicana/o/x Studies Department. Students read his book S …
I want kids and adults to see someone who looks like them and know that their background, identity, or zip code doesn’t limit their potential.
William Archila is the winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for his collection S is For. His first collection, The Art of Exile, was awarded the International Latino Book Award, an Emerging Writer Fellowship Award from the Writer’s Center and was selected for The Fifth Annual Debut Poets Round Up” in Poets …
Now I think of writing as watering a garden, or what it might be like to do that because I’ve never tended a garden.
This 2024 list includes authors nominated by their peers and their fans. In other words, some of them are la gente’s choices. Latino Stories is proud of the fact that we were the first, yes the first, to publish lists of top new Latine talent. Our first list started in 2006. Be sure to pick …
