Ruben Quesada

Ruben Quesada is a Costa Rican-American poet. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.[1] His mother immigrated from Costa Rica in the 1970s, and, according to Quesada, "it was she who always told me that an education was the greatest gift I could give myself."[2]

Ruben Quesada, AWP Conference 2017

Career

Quesada earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at UC Riverside. He then went on to earn a Doctorate in English (Poetry and Poetics) at Texas Tech University.

Quesada served as faculty at Northwestern University,[3] The School of the Art Institute,[4] Columbia College Chicago, where he taught Latinx literature, literary translation, editing, and poetry writing.[5] He is the founding member of the Latino Writers Caucus, which serves to promote the success of Latinx and Latin American writers at all stages of their career.[6]

His extensive editorial career includes positions at The Cossack Review and co-founder of Stories & Queer.[7] He is a former editor at The Rumpus and Iron Horse Literary Review,[8] a Contributing Editor at the Chicago Review of Books.[9] He currently serves as a Blogger at The Kenyon Review (Kenyon College) and as a Poetry Editor AGNI, a magazine housed at Boston University.

Publications

Quesada is the author of Next Extinct Mammal (Greenhouse Review Press, 2011), which "revels in the grounded, specific names and places of his California childhood, and invites them to join Zeus and Aphrodite in the pantheon of poetic allusion", and translator of Luis Cernuda: Exiled from the Throne of Night (Aureole Press, 2008).[10] He is currently working on an anthology entitled Latino Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming).

Quesada's poetry appears in The Best American Poetry[11] and has earned a Pushcart Prize nomination; his poetry and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares[12] and Cimarron Review, among others.

In November 2018, a chapbook of original poetry and literary translations of Spanish poet Luis Cernuda titled Revelations[13] was be published by Sibling Rivalry Press.[14] The title of the collection is inspired the medieval book Revelations of Divine Love.

References
  1. Ruben Quesada, Poetry Foundation, 2015, retrieved 3 December 2015
  2. Quesada, Ruben (2015), The Road Taken, Origins Journal, retrieved 3 December 2015
  3. "Ruben Quesada: Department of English - Northwestern University". Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  4. "rquesa". School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  5. "Ruben Quesada". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  6. "LIT 50 2017". Newcity Lit. 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  7. Ruben Quesada, Poetry Editor, Cobalt Review, 2015, retrieved 3 December 2015
  8. "Ruben Quesada - PEN America". pen.org. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  9. "Ruben Quesada | Writers' Program at UCLA Extension". writers.uclaextension.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  10. Calderwood, Brent (4 January 2012), 'Next Extinct Mammal' by Ruben Quesada, Lambda Literary, retrieved 3 December 2015
  11. Lehman, David; Gioia, Dana (2018-09-18). Best American Poetry 2018. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781501127809.
  12. "Ruben Quesada". blog.pshares.org. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  13. Quesada, Ruben (2018-05-29). "Ruben Quesada". Ruben Quesada. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  14. ""A Bridge to Some Other Possibility": Interview with Bryan Borland & Seth Pennington". Indiana Review. 2018-07-28. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
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