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[edit]After that Zamora was left in the care of his grandparents until he migrated to the United States at the age of nine. Zamora's creative career started with poetry, for which he has received esteemed fellowships from Stanford and Harvard. He examines the reality of border politics, racism, and economic inequality in the migrant experience in his debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied. In his final year of high school, visiting artist Rebecca Foust introduced Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair to the class, sparking Zamora's passion for poetry. Zamora frequently addresses history, borders, and memory in his poetry.
[1]Among Zamora's accolades are a Meridian Editors' Prize, a 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer's Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing at Colgate University, a CantoMundo fellowship, scholarships to the Napa Valley Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and more. In addition, he received a Lannan Foundation Fellowship and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. At the moment, he is a Harvard University Radcliffe Fellow.
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[edit]Soon after Zamora began his eight-week journey from El Salvador to Mexico as an unaccompanied minor. Due to his experiences along that journey Zamora was inspired to write his novel "1999 & Other Poems" to bring awareness to the hostile environments those crossing the boarder face.
where pursued his degree and taught in June Jordan's Poetry for the People program. This was founded by June Jordan in 1991 and is intended to serve as an arts and activism program. The programs academic focus is teaching about reading, writing, poetry and building community.
Solito
[edit]In 2022 Zamora published a memoir titled Solito; This memoir is a recounting of his time between having to leave La Herradura and reuniting with his parents in the U.S. Similarly to his previous work (Unaccompanied) Zamora tells the story of passing over borders at a young age. The entirety of Solito is told in the point of view of a 9 year old Zamora.
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[edit]“Javier Zamora.” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/javier-zamora. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
“Poetry for the People.” Poetry For The People - African American Studies, africam.berkeley.edu/poetry-for-the-people/. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
- ^ "Javier Zamora". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
Young, Julia G. “A Boy at the Border.” Commonweal Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022, www.commonwealmagazine.org/solito-young-migration-children-border-el-salvador.
“Bio.” Javier Zamora, www.javierzamora.net/bio. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.