José Eugenio SANCHEZ Garza

José Eugenio SANCHEZ Garza
  • Americas
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Central America
  • Mexico
Spanish

José Eugenio SANCHEZ Garza has published three collections of poetry, most recently Happiness is a Warm Gun (2004). His second book, Physical Graffiti (1997) won him the International Poetry Grant from the Loewe Foundation; he also received two writing fellowships from Mexico’s Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA), and a Young Poetry Award of Monterrey. At present, he is a member of FONCA’s National System of Creators of Art. His poems are included in Latin-American anthologies in Spain, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia and the United States. He participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.

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