…In September of 2017, a young man by the name of Javier Zamora published a book of poems. The world noticed. The twenty-something Salvadoran-American won a boatload of awards and accolades. He was honored by Barnes & Nobles, Narrative, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Macondo Writer’s Workshop. He earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and served as a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. It has all been deserved….
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Andrés Vaamonde is a writer and editor born and raised in New York, New York. He was awarded the Foyle International Young Poet of the Year Award in 2012, a silver medal at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in 2014, and, most importantly, several dozen youth sports participation trophies. His journalism and fiction appears in Fortune Magazine, OZY Media, Quckoo Quarterly, Black Fox Literary Magazine, and Yahoo. He has taught in a maximum security prison, served as a firefighter at the Cayuga Heights Fire Department, and worked construction in Spain. Currently, he co-leads writing workshops for teens at the Writopia Lab, is an assistant editor at Adolphus Press, and an editorial assistant at Soho Press. He graduated this past May from Cornell University, where he first began working on his as-of-yet unpublished first novel.
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