Carlos Contreras

Carlos Contreras is a writing teacher and National Poetry Slam Champion. For five years he has taught incarcerated adults at the Gordon Bernell Charter School in the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the lead facilitator for the Voces youth writing program at the National Hispanic Cultural Center and a cofounder of Just Write, a prison and public writing program. His previous chapbooks include A Man in Pieces and The Black Book .

Carlos Contreras is a writing teacher and National Poetry Slam Champion. For five years he has taught incarcerated adults at the Gordon Bernell Charter School in the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the lead facilitator for the Voces youth writing program at the National Hispanic Cultural Center and a cofounder of Just Write, a prison and public writing program. His previous chapbooks include A Man in Pieces and The Black Book . See less