Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and Beast Meridian, which was a 2019 Whiting Award winner, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, and the winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. She was a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and holds a doctorate in English literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she lives with her son.
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and Beast Meridian, which was a 2019 Whiting Award winner, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist, and the winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. She was a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and holds a doctorate in English literature and creative writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she lives with her son.
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