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Johanny Vazquez Paz
Born: San Juan, Puerto Rico 1960
Connection to Illinois: Vazquez Paz moved to Chicago in 1986. She completed a master's degree in Hispanic Studies with a specialization in literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently she is a professor of Spanish at Harold Washington College in Chicago. Biography: Johanny Vazquez Paz was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds a Master of Arts in Hispanic Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Indiana State University. Active on the Chicago literary scene, she currently teaches Spanish at Harold Washington College in Chicago, IL.
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanny_Vazquez_Paz
Selected Titles
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I Offer My Heart as a Target ISBN: 1617757632 OCLC: 1091588019 Akashic Books 2019 Introducing the new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, given by the National Poetry Series, featuring an introduction by Rigoberto González, and presented in both Spanish and English. |
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Streetwise Poems ISBN: 0932412467 OCLC: 137262472 Mayapple Press Bay City, MI : 2007 Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Facing page translations from the Spanish by the author. These sensuous and passionate poems explore one of the many strands of contemporary Latino immigrant experience, dancing the tropical sensibility of Puerto Rico among Chicago's concrete and broken glass. Johanny Vazquez Paz was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds a Master of Arts in Hispanic Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Indiana State University. Active on the Chicago literary scene, she currently teaches Spanish at Harold Washington College in Chicago, IL. |