Farid Matuk

Farid Matuk’s books of poetry include My Daughter La Chola and This Isa Nice Neighborhood, recipient of an honorable mention in the 2011 Arab American Book Award, finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award, and chosen by Geoffrey G. O’Brien for recognition in the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets series. His essays can be found in The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde, The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind, and others. His translations from Spanish have appeared widely, and he serves as a poetry editor for FENCE. The recipient of Ford and Fulbright fellowships, Matuk is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona.