Antonio DeJesus Lopez

Antonio López is a poetician working at the intersection of poetry, politics and social change. He has received literary scholarships to attend the Community of Writers, Key West Literary Seminar, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Tin House, the Vermont Studio Center, and Bread Loaf. He is a proud member of the Macondo Writers Workshop and a CantoMundo Fellow. He holds degrees from Duke University, Rutgers-Newark, and the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. His political work and poetry has been featured in a number of publications including NPR, PEN/America, Poetry, and others. He is a 2020-2021 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow. He is also a doctoral candidate at Stanford University in the program of Modern Thought and Literature. His debut poetry collection, Gentefication, was selected by Gregory Pardlo as the winner of the 2019 Levis Prize in Poetry. His second collection, Leaves of Glass, is forthcoming. Antonio fights gentrification in his hometown as the Mayor for the City of East Palo Alto. www.barrioscribe.com