Rigoberto González
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| Born | July 18, 1970 Bakersfield, California |
| Occupation | professor, writer, critic |
| Nationality | USA |
| Ethnicity | Chicano |
| Notable works |
So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks Antonio's Card Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa The Mariposa Club Red-Inked Retablos Unpeopled Eden |
| Notable awards | The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement (The Publishing Triangle) 2014 USA Rolón Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship NEA Fellowship American Book Award The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (Academy of American Poets) The Poetry Center Book Award The Shelley Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America) NYFA Fellowship Lambda Literary Award Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award |
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Rigoberto González (born 1970) is an American writer and book critic. He is an editor and author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and bilingual children's books, and self-identifies in his writing as a gay Chicano. His most recent project is Pivotal Vices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics, a collection of critical essays, book reviews and speeches. He is the 2015 recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from The Publishing Triangle.
Born in Bakersfield, California on July 18, 1970, and raised in Michoacán, Mexico, he is the son and grandson of migrant farm workers, both parents now deceased. His extended family migrated back to California in 1980 and returned to Mexico in 1992. González remained alone in the U.S. to complete his education. Details of his troubled childhood in Michoacán and his difficult adolescence as an immigrant in California are the basis for his coming of age memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa.
During his college years he also performed with various Baile Folklorico and Flamenco dance troupes. He earned a B.A. in Humanities and Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of California, Riverside, and graduate degrees from the University of California, Davis, and Arizona State University in Tempe. His former teachers include the Chicano poets Gary Soto, Francisco X. Alarcón, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Pat Mora and Alberto Ríos, and the African American writers Clarence Major and Jewell Parker Rhodes.
In 1997 González enrolled in a PhD program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, but dropped out a year later to join his partner in New York City and to pursue a writing career. The two published their first books only a few months apart in the spring of 1999 and received numerous awards and recognitions for their works. In 2001, González pursued a career as an academic, holding distinguished teaching appointments at The New School, the University of Toledo, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Queens College/City University of New York.
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