1. Javier Zamora has written works related towards his migration to the United States.
12 Facts About Javier Zamora
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Javier Zamora was born in San Luis La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990.
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Javier Zamora's mother followed her husband's footsteps in 1995 when Javier was about to turn five.
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Javier Zamora was left at the care of his grandparents who helped raise him until he migrated to the US when he was nine.
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Javier Zamora is the winner of a 2024 Whiting Fellowship and the 2022 LA Times-Christopher Isherwood Prize.
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Javier Zamora holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, MacDowell, Macondo, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Foundation, Stanford University, and Yaddo.
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Javier Zamora was a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow from 2018 to 2019.
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Javier Zamora has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, CantoMundo, Colgate University, The Frost Place, MacDowell Colony, the Macondo Writers Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers' Conference, the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing, and Yaddo.
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Javier Zamora's debut work Solito: A Memoir recounting his journey from Mexico to the Sonoran Desert is a New York Times Bestseller.
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In 2024 Javier Zamora was the winner of a Whiting Fellowship for Nonfiction Poetry.
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Javier Zamora was a founder, with poets Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and Christopher Soto, of the Undocupoets campaign which eliminated citizenship requirements from major first poetry book prizes in the United States.
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Javier Zamora has expressed that connecting with nature and birding have helped him on his healing journey.