Javier O. Huerta

Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Público Press 2012) and Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Público Press 2007), which received the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. His poems have recently been anthologized in Art and Artists: Poems, American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011. Huerta also studies laughter and literature in the English PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught the following courses: “Politics and Poetics of Refusal,” “Documents and the Literature of the Undocumented,” and “Laughter and Literature.” Originally from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas via Houston, Texas, he currently lives, studies, and writes in Berkeley.