Joaquín Zihuatanejo is the proud descendant of migrant field workers. Joaquín was recently named the inaugural Dallas Poet Laureate, and he received a Poet Laureate Fellowship Prize from the Academy of American Poets in honor of the outstanding service he provided while serving as Dallas’ first poet laureate. The second sentence of this bio is not more poetic or important than the first. The second sentence would not be possible without the first. Joaquín received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. His last book, Arsonist, won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry as selected by Eduardo C. Corral. His new book, Occupy Whiteness, is out now from Deep Vellum Publishing. Joaquín has two passions in his life, his partner Aída and poetry… always in that order.
