An Evening with Author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Children of the Land: A Memoir (Harper Collins); Cenzontle (BOA Editions), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. prize; Dulce (Northwestern University Press), winner of the Drinking Gourd Prize; and, most recently, he is the co-editor of the anthology Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (Harper Perennial). He is the 2025 guest editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review and has also curated the Academy of American Poet鈥檚 Poem-A-Day Series.
His work has been long listed for the California Book Award, the Foreword Indies Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award, among other recognitions. He was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan and co-founded the Undocupoets, which eliminated citizenship requirements from all major poetry book prizes in the U.S., and for which he was recognized with the Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers award.
He currently serves as faculty in the MFA program at St. Mary鈥檚 College of California and at Ashland University鈥檚 Low-Res MFA program. Presented by the PASOS Network at 好色TV. In collaboration with the St. Catherine of Siena Center, Office of Hispanic Serving Initiatives, and the Oak Park Public Library.
*Books will be available for purchase on-site by Los Amigos Books.