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Vickie Vertiz

The oldest child of an immigrant family, Vickie Vértiz’s writing can be found in the New York Times magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her book Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut won the 2018 PEN America literary prize in poetry. A recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation and Macondo, Vickie teaches writing at UC-Santa Barbara.

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