Emmy Pérez
Emmy Pérez is a Chicanx poet and writer originally from Santa Ana, California, United States. She was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2017. She has lived in the borderlands of Texas since 2000, where she has taught creative writing in college and MFA programs, as well as in detention facilities and as part of social justice projects.
Also recorded as Laura Emma Pérez
Emmy Pérez

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- Name
- Emmy Pérez
- Education
- University of Southern California (BA) Columbia University (MFA)
- Occupation
- poet · university teacher
- Fields
- poetics · Chicana feminism · service learning · Latino poetry
- Honours
- CantoMundo fellow
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Emmy Pérez is a Chicanx poet and writer originally from Santa Ana, California, United States. She was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2017. She has lived in the borderlands of Texas since 2000, where she has taught creative writing in college and MFA programs, as well as in detention facilities and as part of social justice projects.
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Biography
Biography
Her latest collective is Poets Against the Border Wall. She was also a fellow (2010–12) and organizing committee member of CantoMundo (2018–19) and is a long-time member of Macondo Writers Workshop. She is best known for her collections, With the River on Our Face and Solstice. She received the 2009 Alfredo Cisneros del Moral award for her writing, an award started by Sandra Cisneros. Previously, she received the James D. Phelan Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation. In 2019, she was named the Poet Laureate for Texas for 2020. She began her stewardship in March 2020.
Emmy Pérez studied at University of Southern California and Columbia University. The field of work recorded is poetics, Chicana feminism and service learning. Employment is recorded with University of Texas at El Paso and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Distinctions recorded are CantoMundo fellow.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Emmy Pérez • Education — University of Southern California (BA) Columbia University (MFA) • Genre — Poetry Chicanx Literature • Subject — borderlands • Notable Works — With the River on Our Face • Website — emmyperez.com/about.html
Biography and reception
Biography and reception
She graduated from University of Southern California with an undergraduate degree, and received her MFA from Columbia University. She teaches at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where she is a full professor. She is also the associate director for the Center of Mexican Studies. She has been the recipient of many prestigious awards and fellowships, including, but not limited to: the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Ucross Foundation.
Works
Works
Collections • With the River on Our Face Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2016., • Solstice Sacramento, CA: Swan Scythe Press, 2011., Poems • [No Strawberry Moon] from Poem a Day with audio No Strawberry Moon • Not One More Refugee Death at the Poetry Foundation website. Not one more refugee death • Downriver Río Grande Ghazalion from With the River on Our Face Downriver Río Grande Ghazalion • Halladay Street from Solstice Halladay Street • NEA for Poetry List 2017 NEA fellows • Texas Poets Laureate list Texas poets laureate • CantoMundo Organizing Committee CantoMundo • Alfredo Cisneros de Moral Writing Award 2009 Cisneros Writing Award 2019
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- 1.Literature Fellowships - 2017. National Endowment for the Arts.
- 2.Emmy Pérez. Poetry Foundation. 2019-09-27.
- 3.Poetry Against the Border Wall. Literary Hub. 2017-07-26.
- 4.Emmy Pérez. Texas Commission on the Arts. 2012-05-30.
- 5.About Us. Canto Mundo.
- 6.Bennett, Steve. Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Poetry Award Winner to Read. Weekender 24/7. 28 January 2010.
- 7.About. Emmy Pérez.
- 8.Fountain, Pérez named next Poets Laureate of Texas. Lone Star Literary Life. 2019-03-19.
- 9.2020 Texas Poet Laureate. Texas Woman's University.
- 10.Laura Emma Perez. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
- 11.Center for Mexican American Studies. The University of Texas Rio grande Valley.
- 12.New York Foundation for the Arts Directory of Fellows. New York Foundation for the Arts.
- 13.Palgrave Macmillan UK. The Grants Register 2019. 320. 2018-11-13. 9781349958092.
- 14.Literature. Ucross Foundation.
- 15.Bowles, David. TOP SHELF: Highways and the River. The Monitor. August 26, 2016.
- 16.Hoffert, Barbara. Top Fall Poetry: Great Reading Beyond the Basics from Veterans and Newcomers Alike. The Library Journal. 17 October 2016.
- 17.With the River on Our Face. UAPress. 12 July 2017.
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