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Farid Matuk

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Occupation
  
Poet and educator

Nationality
  
American

Language
  
English and Spanish

Ethnicity
  
Peruvian/Syrian


Notable works
  
This Isa Nice Neighborhood, My Daughter La Chola

Notable awards
  
Honorable Mention in the 2011 and 2014 Arab American Book Awards, Ford Fellowship and Fulbright Fellowship

Books
  
This Isa Nice Neighborhood, My Daughter La Chola

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Farid Matuk is an American poet and educator, born to a Peruvian father and Syrian mother in Peru. He writes in both English and Spanish, and his Spanish translations have appeared in Kadar Koli, Translation Review, Mandorla, and Bombay Gin. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Flag + Void, Iowa Review, and Poetry and abroad in White Wall Review (Canada), Critical Quarterly (UK), and Poem: International English Language Quarterly (UK). He is currently a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Arizona. His book This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine, 2010) was the recipient of an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Arab American Book Awards. and was included in The Poetry Society of America's New American Poets series. My Daughter La Chola (Ahsata, 2013) received an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Arab American Book Awards. My Daughter La Chola was also named among the best books of 2013 by The Volta and by The Poetry Foundation while selections from its pages have been anthologized in The Best American Experimental Poetry, 2014, The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing Vol. 3, and in Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latino@ Writing. He has served as poetry editor for Fence. Matuk is the recipient of both the Ford Fellowship and Fulbright Fellowship.

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References

Farid Matuk Wikipedia