Oliver de la Paz
Oliver de la Paz was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in Ontario, Oregon.
He has a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in English from Loyola Marymount University,
and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Arizona State University.
He has taught at Arizona State University, Gettysburg College, Utica
College, and he currently teaches creative writing at Western Washington University. He has worked with Kundiman as faculty/staff since 2004, and he currently serves on their Advisory Board. A recipient of a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, his work has appeared in journals such as
Quarterly West,
Cream City Review,
Third Coast,
North American Review, and elsewhere. His book of prose and verse,
Names Above Houses, was a winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series and published by
Southern Illinois University Press in 2001. His second collection of poems,
Furious Lullaby, was published in October 2007 by
SIU Press. He is winner of the 2009 Akron Poetry Prize for his collection
Requiem for the Orchard, forthcoming in spring 2010.
Posted on February 16, 2005 5:18 AM
