Deborah Paredez is a poet and scholar. She is the author of four books including the critical memoir, American Diva (Norton 2024) and the poetry collections, This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), winner of the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award. Her critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009), was awarded the 2011 Chicana/o Studies Association Book Award Honorable Mention and the 2010 Latin American Studies Association Latino Studies Book Award Honorable Mention. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, NPR, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of CantoMundo, a national organization dedicated to Latinx poets and poetry. At Columbia, Professor Paredez is a recipient of a 2020-21 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. She is the current chair of the School of the Arts Writing Program. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
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Deborah Paredez is a poet and scholar. She is the author of four books including the critical memoir, American Diva (Norton 2024) and the poetry collections, This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), winner of the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award. Her critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009), was awarded the 2011 Chicana/o Studies Association Book Award Honorable Mention and the 2010 Latin American Studies Association Latino Studies Book Award Honorable Mention. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, NPR, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of CantoMundo, a national organization dedicated to Latinx poets and poetry. At Columbia, Professor Paredez is a recipient of a 2020-21 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. She is the current chair of the School of the Arts Writing Program. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
