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lourdes vázquez reading at zinc bar puerto rico puerto rican '' myself without you '' bestiary : selected poems 1986-1997 '' '' not lourdes vázquez.png lourdes vázquez
 lourdes vázquez short story writer , novelist , poet , essayist
lourdes vázquez

lourdes vázquez is a writer born in puerto rico and a resident of the united states .
her poetry , short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers .
many of her works have been translated into catalan , english , french , galician , italian , mixtec , portuguese , romanian , and swedish .
she is a member of the pen american center and of the poetry project and also an honorable board member of center for latino arts and culture at rutgers university .
she is a librarian emeritus of rutgers university , where she worked for many years .
vázquez was awarded an honorable mention for the national poetry series 2014 paz prize for poetry as well as an honorable mention for the premio nacional luis lloréns torres , casa de los poetas , 2014 -lrb- pr -rrb- .
she was selected as judge for the bordersenses literary prize in fiction , 2014 .
