Juan Felipe Herrera, son of migrant farmworkers, is a Chicano poet born in Fowler, California.
In addition to his 24 previously published books, his most recent books are Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press)—one of the New York Times Best Books of 2008 and winner of a 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and Latino International Award in Poetry 2009—and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments (City Lights) which won the 2008 PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles National Poetry Award.
He is the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in the Department of Creative Writing at UC-Riverside.
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