José Olivarez

José Olivarez is an author, poet and educator from Calumet City, Illinois, U.S.[1] His first full collection of poetry is Citizen Illegal (2018, ISBN 9781608469543), published by Haymarket Books. Citizen Illegal was shortlisted for the $75,000 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.[2]

Olivarez at the 2019 Texas Book Festival

Education and early life

Jose Olivarez the son of Mexican immigrants, graduated from Harvard University.[1]

Career and writing

Olivarez's work has been featured in the New York Times, the Paris Review, and Poetry Magazine, among others.[3] In 2014, he co-authored the collection Home Court.[4] Haymarket Books published his first full collection, Citizen Illegal, in 2018. Citizen Illegal was shortlisted for the $75,000 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.[2] He is co-editor, along with Willie Perdomo and Felicia Chavez, of the forthcoming anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext.[5]

He has received fellowships from several organizations, including a 2016 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship[6] and a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.[7]

Olivarez worked for the writing and education organizations Urban Word in New York[8] and Young Chicago Authors, which produces the youth poetry festival, Louder than a Bomb.[9] Olivarez co-hosts the podcast The Poetry Gods.[3]

Works
  • Citizen Illegal, Haymarket Books, 2018 ISBN 978-1608469543
  • The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, Haymarket Books, 2020 ISBN 9781642591293

References
  1. Steinkopf-Frank, Hannah. "Chicago poet José Olivarez builds his own world in debut book 'Citizen Illegal'". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  2. "Announcing the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
  3. "José Olivarez". Poetry Foundation. 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
  4. "The Top Five Featuring José Olivarez". Young Chicago Authors. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  5. "La poesía, imaginar respuestas". El Heraldo de México (in Spanish). 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  6. "Emerging Poets Fellowship Recipients". Poets House. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  7. "5 young poets each receive awards of $25,000". AP NEWS. 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  8. "José Olivarez". Poets House. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  9. Sutton, Rebecca (2018-02-21). "A Youth Festival Where Poetry Is Louder than a Bomb". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 2018-09-15.



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