Life

He immigrated with his Cuban exile family to Miami where he was raised and educated.

He graduated from Florida International University

Florida International University

Florida International University is an American public research university in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park...

 in Civil Engineering (1991) and Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1997), where he studied with Campbell McGrath

Campbell McGrath

Campbell McGrath is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Seven Notebooks , Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition , and In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys .- Life :McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and...

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Since 1999, he traveled and lived in Guatemala, and Brazil. He taught at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

, American University

American University

American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...

, and Central Connecticut State University

Central Connecticut State University

Central Connecticut State University is a state university in New Britain, Connecticut, United States.The school was moved to its present campus in 1922...

. He lives in Miami.

His work has appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly Review, New England Review, and Americas Review.

Awards

• 1988 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
  Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
  The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is...
  
  
• John Ciardi Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference
• Florida Artist Fellowship
• Residency Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Works

• "Somewhere to Paris", Poetry Foundation

External links

• "Richard Blanco", TRES Review, Jack Anders Summer 2004