Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador. He immigrated to the US when he was nine to reunite with his parents. Zamora was a 2018–19 Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University, and holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, MacDowell, Macondo Writers Workshop, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Foundation, Stanford University and Yaddo. He is the author of the poetry collection, Unaccompanied, and a memoir, SOLITO, forthcoming from Hogarth in 2022. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 157
A Wider Patch of Sky
Javier Zamora & Francisco Cantú
‘We’re so much more than those things. Citizen or undocumented. Border Patrol or immigrant.’
Letters between Javier Zamora and Francisco Cantú.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 157
First Sentence: Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora
‘Immigration has become a physical thing, like a tumor inside us, between us.’
Poetry | Issue 137
Cassette-tape
Javier Zamora
‘I will etch visas on toilet paper and throw them from a lighthouse.’