Born in 1952 in Nogales, Arizona in 1952, Alberto Álvaro Ríos is the author of nine books of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir.
His books of poems include The Theater of Night, Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses, The Lime Orchard Woman, The Warrington Poems, Five Indiscretions, Whispering to Fool the Wind, and The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. His three collections of short stories include The Curtain of Trees, Pig Cookies, and The Iguana Killer. His memoir Capirotada, which explores his experience growing up on the Mexico-Arizona border, won the Latino Literary Hall of Fame Award.
Ríos is the recipient of the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award, the Arizona Governor's Arts Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Walt Whitman Award, the Western States Book Award for Fiction and six Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and fiction. He has also been included in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, as well as over 200 other national and international literary anthologies. His work is regularly taught and translated, and has been adapted to dance and both classical and popular music.
Ríos is a Regents' Professor at Arizona State University, where he has taught for 25 years and currently holds the Katharine C. Turner Endowed Chair in English.
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