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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (born in Rio Grande Valley) is a bilingual American poet, essayist, and cultural critic of Mexican descent, whose work focuses on first-generation immigrant experience, pop culture, hybrid experimental and visual poetry, and transnational feminist documentary poetics.

She is a recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing and in 2019, she won a Whiting Award for poetry. She was also a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist for her book, ''Beast Meridian'' (Noemi Press, Akrilica Series, 2017).

She is a CantoMundo Fellow and is pursuing her doctorate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She was a mentor for PEN Emerging Voices 2020.

Her work has appeared in major media outlets and magazines including ''The Cut'', ''Oxford American'', The Academy of American Poets, ''POETRY magazine'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''BuzzFeed'', ''The Boston Review'', and ''The New York Times'', among others. Provided by Wikipedia