John M. Chávez

John Chávez, a Colorado native, received an M.F. A. from New Mexico State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His poems have appeared in Cooper Nickel, Diode, Notre Dame Review, Puerto del Sol, Tusculum Review, The Laurel Review, Palabra, Pilgrimage, Poet Lore and Zone 3, among others. His first, full-length collection City of Slow Dissolve was published by University of New Mexico Press in 2012 and won the IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. His anthology, Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, co-edited with Carmen Giménez Smith, was published by Counterpath Press in 2014. He lives in Denver, Colorado.