Javier O Huerta

Javier O. Huerta's poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including Red, White, and Blues (2004), and journals such as Punto de Partida at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. A native of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Huerta became a US citizen in 2000 and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he is studies the laughter of poetry in the English PhD Program at the University of California at Berkeley. His book Some Clarifications y otros poemas (2007) received the...See more

Javier O. Huerta's poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including Red, White, and Blues (2004), and journals such as Punto de Partida at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. A native of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Huerta became a US citizen in 2000 and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he is studies the laughter of poetry in the English PhD Program at the University of California at Berkeley. His book Some Clarifications y otros poemas (2007) received the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from University of California at Irvine and marks the arrival of a vibrant new voice in Mexican American literature. See less