Francisco Aragón

A native of San Francisco, California, Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He holds degrees in Spanish from UC Berkeley and NYU, respectively. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1998 after a ten-year stint abroad, Aragón obtained degrees in creative writing from UC Davis (M.A.) and the University of Notre Dame (M.F.A.) in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He then joined the faculty of the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame, where he established Letras Latinas. In 2010, he was awarded the “Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Arts, Literary Arts and Publications Award by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education and in 2015 a VIDO Award by VIDA, Women in the Literary Arts. In 2017, he was a finalist for Split This Rock’s Freedom Plow Award for poetry and activism. Aragón is the author of: Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press, 2005) and Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press, 2010) as well as editor of the anthology, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007). He is currently completing his third book, After Rubén.