Javier Zamora

Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is the author of the poetry collection Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon, 2017) and the memoir Solito (Hogarth, 2022). His work has appeared in Best New Poets 2013, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry magazine, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Zamora’s honors include a 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award and a Meridian Editors’ Prize. He has also been the recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship.