Andrés Montoya

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Name Andres Montoya Role Poet		Died 1999 Awards American Book Awards

Books The Ice Workers Sings and Other Poem Education University of Oregon, California State University, Fresno

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Andrés Montoya (May 18, 1968 – May 26, 1999) was a Latino American poet.

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Life

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He graduated from California State University, Fresno, and from the University of Oregon.

His work appeared in The Santa Clara Review, In the Grove, Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe, and Flies, Cockroaches, and Poets.

His father, Malaquias Montoya, teaches at University of California, Davis, and was visiting fellow at the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) at the University of Notre Dame.

He died from leukemia, before his book was published.

The biennial Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize is awarded by the Institute for Latino Studies, at the University of Notre Dame.

Awards

1997 UC Irvine’s Chicano/Latino Literary Prize, for The Iceworker Sings and Other Poems, selected by Francisco X. Alarcón

2000 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation

Works

The Iceworker Sings and Other Poems. Bilingual Review Press. September 1999. ISBN 978-0-927534-86-4.

In brown America. University of Oregon. 1994.

Anthologies

Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams, and Mark Jarman, eds. (March 15, 2001). How Much Earth: An Anthology of Fresno Poets. Heyday Books. ISBN 978-0-9666691-7-6. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Rick Heide, ed. (2002). "the rains have left and ernesto is dead". Under the fifth sun: Latino literature from California. Heyday Books. ISBN 978-1-890771-59-1.

Stan Yogi, Gayle Mak, Patricia Wakida, eds. (2007). Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley. Great Valley Books/Heyday Books. ISBN 978-1-59714-067-6. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

References

Andrés Montoya Wikipedia

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