Diego Vazquez Jr
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Contact Information
contact name: Diego Vazquez, Jr.
email: diego@diegovazquezjr.com
Similar Artists:
Cantiflas
Snow White
Related Organizations:
COMPAS/Writers & Artists in the Schools
Prosper
Experience
A small school in west Texas run by exiled Jesuits, whose proximity to the border made their escape simple and quick.
Awards
The Loft Minnesota Writers Career Initiative Program 1996-1997
Jerome Travel and Study Grant 1993-1994
Minnesota Artist Assistance Fellowship 1993-1994
Loft Mentor Award for Fiction 1992-1993
Loft Inroads Program 1990
Publications
"Growing Through the Ugly"
W.W. Norton & Company (1st edition)New York February 1997
Henry Holt/Owl Books (paperback)New York March 1998
"Buzzy Digit"
Editions Metailie (trans.) Paris July 1999
"Quand on Aime" November 1999
"Jimmy et Justine"
Editions Metailie (trans.) Paris
"River Pigs" (editor) Dec 1998
"Rooftop JailBirds" (editor) Dec 1996
COMPAS/Writers & Artists in the Schools Anthology
Drumvoices Review Summer/Fall 2000
"On a Northlake with a Brown Girl from Tejas"
Colors Magazine, Four Colors Productions
"Ningun ser humano, es ilegal" 1995
"Immigration Faith" 1994
"Some Whispers Never Leave" 1993
Nineteenth Avenue, The Humphrey Forum/U of Minnesota
"Chavez. A Different Way To fight" (April)1994
"Listening To Our Neighbors" (January Issue)
"Circles, Singers, and Congas" (May)1993
"Buscando Santos" (April Issue)
Speaking in Tongues, The Loft 1994
"Nam Paso"
MPLS/ST.Paul Magazine 1993
"Voices of Faith"
A View from the Loft, The Loft
"I Will Identify Myself" 1993
"Growing Through The Ugly" (excerpt)1992
"On the need to write"1990
Instant Coffee, Coffee House Press
"A simple education early in the morning" 1993
New Chicana/Chicano Writing, U of Arizona Press1993
"On the violations of Poetry"
"Paid green eyes did not cry"
"No, Clarence, not Kafka, it was the Prince"
"Greeting a cardinal on the Sonoran Desert"
Do You Know Me Now? Normandale Community College 1993
"Growing through the Ugly" (excerpt)
Visiones de la Raza, Centro Cultural Chicano 1990
"Washing the madness with mad strokes"
"Assimilation Hoboes"
Biographical Information
Country of Citizenship:
United States
Birth Place:
Chicago, Illinois
Active Place:
Saratoga Studio
Minnesota County:
Ramsey
Artist Information
Roles
Novelist