Rigoberto Gonzalez

Rigoberto Gonzalez is the author of eight books, including the recent young adult novel The Mariposa Club. His awards include a Guggenheim, an NEA, The Poetry Center Book Award and the Before Columbus American Book Award for his memoir, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa. He is a contributing editor for Poets and Writers Magazine, on the Executive Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, on the Board of Directors of Fishouse Poems: A Poetry Archive, and on the Advisory Circle of Con Tinta, a collective of Chicano/ Latino activist writers. He writes a bimonthly Latino book column, now entering its seventh year, for the El Paso Times of Texas, and is the editor of a forthcoming anthology of Latino literature.