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Name
  
Jose Gonzalez


Role
  
Poet

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Education
  
Bryant University, Brown University

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Jose B. Gonzalez is a Latino poet and educator.

Contents

Gonzalez authored the poetry collection, Toys Made of Rock (Bilingual Review Press, 2015), and with John S. Christie, served as Co-Editor of Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature. He was born in San Salvador, El Salvador in 1967, where he lived until he was eight. He and his family then moved to New London, Connecticut.

He is a graduate of New London High School, and holds a Bachelor of Science from Bryant University, a Master's in Teaching English from Brown University, and an Ph.D. in English from the University of Rhode Island. He is a professor of English at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.

He has appeared as a guest poet on Univision and American Latino TV and has been a contributor to Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education and on National Public Radio (NPR).

His poetry has been published in Quercus Review, Callaloo, The Teacher's Voice, Palabra, Acentos Review, and Colere, and anthologies including Coloring Book, Nantucket: A Collection, and Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature, and Ocho. He founded LatinoStories.com.

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Awards

He is the recipient of the following awards:

  • 2003 National Association of Multicultural Education CT Faculty of the Year
  • 2006 NEATE Poet of the Year
  • 2009 AAHHE Outstanding Latino Faculty of the Year
  • 2011-2012 Fulbright Scholar
  • 2015 Latino De Oro (Arts and Culture)
  • 2015 International Latino Book Award Finalist

    • Poetry collections

  • Toys Made of Rock. Bilingual Review Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1-939743-15-2. 

    • Editor

  • Latino Boom An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature. Pearson (John S. Christie, co-editor). 2006. ISBN 9780321093837. 

    • Poems in Anthologies

  • The Norton Introduction to Literature (12th ed.) edited by Kelly J. Mays. Norton. 2016. ISBN 978-1-939743-15-2. 
  • Theatre Under My Skin, Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry Edited by Alexandra Rytton Regaled and Tania Pleitez. Kalina. 2016. ISBN 999238767X. 
  • Bullying: Replies, Rebuttals, Confessions, and Catharsis: A Multigenerational and Multicultural Anthology Edited by María Luisa Arroyo and Magdalena Gómez. Skyhorse. 2012. ISBN 1616087277. 
  • Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers edited by boice-Terrel Adams. Rattlecat. 2003. ISBN 0970134037. 

    • Speaking career

    Gonzalez has been a featured speaker throughout the country including at Fairfield University, Rutgers University Pittsburg State University (Kansas), Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, Texas), Cornell University Connecticut College, The Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC, at festivals such as the Newburyport Literary Festival, and the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. He has presented his poetry in countries such as El Salvador and Spain.

    References

    Jose B. Gonzalez Wikipedia
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