Person Detail: Gloria Vando

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General Information:
Full Name: Gloria Vando
Biography: Gloria Vando's most recent collection, Shadows & Supposes (Arte Público Press), won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and the Latino Literary Hall of Fame's 2003 Poetry Book Award. She is the recipient of the 2009 Poetry Award from El Instituto de Puerto Rico, NY; the first Kansas Arts Commission Poetry Fellowship; two Billee Murray Denny Prizes; a River Styx International Poetry Award; and others. Her work is in many magazines, texts, and anthologies, including the 2007 Grammy-nominated Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work 1888-2006. She is publisher/editor of Helicon Nine Editions, an independent non-profit small press she founded in 1977 and for which she received the Kansas Governor's Arts Award and the CLMP Editor's Grant. She has served on panels for the N.E.A. and as judge for many contests including the National Poetry Series. She is a contributing editor of the North American Review. In 1992 she and her husband, Bill Hickok, founded The Writers Place, a literary center in Kansas City. They now live in Los Angeles.
Circuit Writer Information:
Category:	Interstate
Travel Range:	Anywhere, with sufficient notice.
Transportation:	Car or plane.
Dates Available:	Anytime.
Fees:	Negotiable (I have lodging in New York City).
Contact Information:	CA Email: vandog@heliconnine.com Website (click here)
Author's Timeline:
1992		(Unknown) County Promesas: Geography of the Impossible (Pub: Arte Publico Press, University of Houston. ISBN: 1-55885-061-9 and 1-55885-059-7 (pbk).) Poems. Winner of the Thorpe Menn Book Award (AAUW) and finalist for the Walt Whitman Award (Academy of American Poets). Colette Inez writes: "The poet's unflinching look at her personal history, and the chronicle of her patria, her island home's realities and myths, give this book a moral authority, a vision of a multicultural world made rich by Vando's artistry and intelligence. Here is significant and memorable work, and I salute it."
2002		(Unknown) County Shadows & Supposes (Pub: Arte Publico Press, University of Houston. ISBN: 1-55885-360-X.) Poems. Winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award (PSA) and 2003 Latino Literary Hall of Fame, Latino Book Award Winners-Best Poetry Book of the Year. Martin Espada writes: "There is a remarkable range of human experience in these poems; from Puetro Rico to Bosnia, from potatoes to homicide, from the lies of war to the truth of baseball. Intelligent, crafted, compassionate, with a sharp eye for the absurd and unjust.."