Ray Gonzalez is the author of nine books of poetry including
Consideration of the Guitar (2005). His other
titles from BOA include The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande
(2002), a winner of a 2003 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, Cabato
Sentora (1999); and The Heat of Arrivals (1996),
a winner of a 1997 PEN/Josephine Miles Book Award. He
is the author of two books of nonfiction: Memory Fever
(1999), a memoir about growing up in the Southwest, and The
Underground Heart (2002), which received the 2003 Carr
P. Collins/Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best Book of
Nonfiction. He is also the author of two books of short
stories: The Ghost of John Wayne (2001) and Circling
the Tortilla Dragon (2002). His poetry has appeared
in the 1999, 2000, and 2003 editions of The Best American
Poetry and in The Pushcart Prize: Best of Small Presses
2000. He is the editor of twelve anthologies, most
recently No Boundaries:Prose Poems by 24 Poets. He
has served as Poetry Editor of The Bloomsbury Review for
twenty-five years and founded LUNA, a poetry journal,
in 1998. He received a Lifetime Acheivement
Award in Literature from the Border Regional Library Association
in 2003 and is a Full Professor in the MFA Creative Writing
Program at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
BOA books by Ray Gonzalez:
Cabato Sentora
Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems
Heat of Arrivals
The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande
