Ruben Quesada

Ruben Quesada is an American poet and critic. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

In 2022, Quesada published an [https://ippyawards.com/169/medalists/2023-medalists-1-53 award-winning] anthology, ''Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry'', by University of New Mexico Press. It "explores the ways in which a people's history and language are vital to the development of a poet's imagination and insists that the meaning and value of poetry are necessary to understand the history and future of a people."

His poetry appears in ''The Best American Poetry'' and has earned multiple Pushcart Prize nominations; his writing and criticism appear in ''The New York Times'', ''Harvard Review'', ''Guernica'', ''The American Poetry Review'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Kirkus Reviews'' and ''Cimarron Review''. Provided by Wikipedia