Deborah Paredez
Deborah Paredez is the author of four books: the critical memoir American Diva (Norton 2024), the scholarly study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009), and the poetry collections This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), winner of the 2020 Writers' League of Texas Poetry Book Award and a New York Times New and Notable Book. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Boston Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of CantoMundo, a national organization dedicated to Latinx poets and poetry. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Theatre and Performance Studies from Northwestern University.
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News
American Diva, a new work of literary nonfiction by Writing Chair and Associate Professor Deborah Paredez, will be published by W.W. Norton in May 2024.
Associate Professor of Writing Deborah Paredez was recently awarded the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award for her collection, Year of the Dog (BOA Editions, 2020).
Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Writing Deborah Paredez about COVID-19’s impact on her writing practice, the kinesthetic challenges in Zoom classrooms, and the pleasure in process over product.
Associate Professor Deborah Paredez was awarded a Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant from Columbia's Division of the Humanities in the Arts and Sciences for her forthcoming poetry book, Year of the Dog.
Associate Professor, Deborah Paredez was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poem “A Rock and a Hard Place” which appears in the current issue of Poet Lore.