Antonio de Jesús López has received scholarships to attend the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, 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, the University of Oxford, and Stanford University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in PEN/America, Insider Higher Education, Palette Poetry, The New Republic, Tin House, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Gentefication, was selected by Gregory Pardlo as the winner of the 2019 Levis Prize in Poetry. Between 2020 and 2024, he served as councilmember for the City of East Palo Alto. He was appointed San Mateo County’s 5th Poet Laureate in April 2025, and is expected to receive his PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in June.
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Find Antonio’s book in the library!
Gentefication (2021)
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